Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech

[hunter]

135. Late 'seventies every engineering class I took had one or two women at most...

... and they had to be tough.

Computer Science was Fortran and newfangled Data Structures in Pascal. Praise the Lord I never suffered Java.

So much as I love computers and other electronics, I changed my major to biology which was close to 50/50 men and women, and classmates were much less likely to talk about cars and "babes" when they were not studying. I hate cars, and objectifying someone as a "babe" in my matriarchal family, very strong women of the Wild West skilled with knives and guns and general mayhem, intolerant of bad men, was unthinkable.

I was fortunate, I guess, to have an engineering roommate who didn't talk about women like that, but mostly it was because he was terrified of women and afraid he'd end up in hell for lustful thoughts outside of marriage. How anyone would ever manage to get married or even date without a few lustful thoughts, I don't know. He also listened to Christian Rock and was overly excited about Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming, which to me was unforgivable.