rainwarrior wrote:
mikejmoffitt wrote:
I'm not sure women love being referred to as females.
I think we shouldn't force unnecessary context on words like this. There's absolutely no reason to think that JoeGtake2 meant to imply "sub human" or "inferior" or anything of the sort with the word "female". This is not a word that necessarily carries that context, and it usually doesn't. (That said, "women" is probably the better choice of word, by default.)
I always thought of female as an umbrella term. I wouldn't call a 40 year old female a girl, and I definitely wouldn't call an 8 year old female a woman.
Erockbrox wrote:
I know, I've always just wanted to grab a hot girl on a hot sweaty school bus and just throw her down on the bus seat and just start banging the heck out of her in front of everyone.
Erockbrox wrote:
On a more serious note, I used to really like watching girls boobs while riding on the bus because usually its bumpy and you get to see their boobs bounce up and down.
Still,
JoeGtake2 wrote:
Thanks for the input, everybody. Yeah, I guess part of me is being a little sensitive to the matter too - in portraying NES homebrewing, I didn't want to come off as completely neglecting a demographic if that demographic did exist and I just had not met them yet. I didn't necessarily want to make any sort of dramatic case for women in the community, but just wanted to make sure that if they were out there, they were proportionally represented. Didn't mean for things to get all political. haha.
Just something I HAVE noted which might be interesting - I taught game development at the high school level for 6 years. My classes averaged about 50-50 gender ratio, which I thought was awesome. Every semester it was the same...the girls seemed bored (or pretended to hate it for appearances or whatever) while the boys were sort of ruthless in reminding them that game development was a boys club and only dudes understood what really made a good game. By the end of the semester, EVERY semester for the 11 semesters that we invited outside developers to blindly critique and judge the games, girls took the top spots for best game. Every single time.
I thought that was actually really neat and inspiring.
You lucky bastard... In order to take a programming class at my school, you have to take a class in 9th grade that teaches you how to use Microsoft Office, which about half of the class
still doesn't know how to do, and a lot of the people are sophomores too. I learned how to use Microsoft Word when I was 6 years old at my old school in Virginia. It was really cool, because if you had any remaining time when you got done with the lesson, you got to play on Kid Pix. Anyone remember that? Anyway, I bet I'm not even going to like the programming class when I get there, because it's sure as hell not going to teach you ASM. (And not on the 65816.
) it's probably going to be RubyPython+++++ or whatever bloated, inefficient garbage. That kind of reminds me, my father got me this Raspberry Pi thing to "program" on or whatever. I haven't even touched it. Should I?