I believe it’s just people coming out of the closet or discovering their identity.
Personally as a gay dude living in a place where being gay is illegal I believe that computer just attracts people who are outcasts. In the 90s the stereotype of programmers was uncool nerds with no friends. It just looks like computer science and computer engineering is a safe spot for people who feel hated by the world. Like in a Linux forum no one cares about your identity. You get hate for being incompetent not for falling in love with a dude. So they see you as a human. Not a gay human. This what I love about computer community, they care about ideas and solutions that my mind comes up with. They don’t care about my love interests.
I haven’t seen this in maybe 20 years. I printed it out at the time (on a dot matrix printer!) And read it to anyone who would listen to me. Thank you for bringing it up again.
Well I only had one atari console, the one to play pong/tennis/squash on it with the rotating knob controls. Not sure if that qualify for a Atari dump 😅
I believe that computer just attracts people who are outcasts
I think you’re right, but I’ve also read that there might be some correlation between being trans and being on the autism spectrum. If that’s true, then it is reasonable to expect a higher than average percentage of IT people would be trans.
Some are in this field for the money. (Normies)
Some because they like the field and the culture of it. (Nerds, Geeks, etc.)
Anyway man, thanks for letting us queers to be a part of the IT community. Seriously, sometimes I wonder if computers didn’t exist where did I have to go lol. This community is the only place that I am accepted in.
I believe it’s just people coming out of the closet or discovering their identity. Personally as a gay dude living in a place where being gay is illegal I believe that computer just attracts people who are outcasts. In the 90s the stereotype of programmers was uncool nerds with no friends. It just looks like computer science and computer engineering is a safe spot for people who feel hated by the world. Like in a Linux forum no one cares about your identity. You get hate for being incompetent not for falling in love with a dude. So they see you as a human. Not a gay human. This what I love about computer community, they care about ideas and solutions that my mind comes up with. They don’t care about my love interests.
We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals.
I haven’t seen this in maybe 20 years. I printed it out at the time (on a dot matrix printer!) And read it to anyone who would listen to me. Thank you for bringing it up again.
Are you me?
Well I only had one atari console, the one to play pong/tennis/squash on it with the rotating knob controls. Not sure if that qualify for a Atari dump 😅
Dude I loved the text. Thanks.
I think you’re right, but I’ve also read that there might be some correlation between being trans and being on the autism spectrum. If that’s true, then it is reasonable to expect a higher than average percentage of IT people would be trans.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9014767/#%3A~%3Atext=(2020)+found+that+that+transgender%2Cand+sex+assigned+at+birth).
Interesting. I am not autistic but I am diagnosed with other neurological conditions making me a neurodivergent.
I mean… I’m cis white male, and that’s 100% why i went into computer engineering.
But the reality is so many people I work for and with aren’t weird outcasts and it’s… Not fun.
Some are in this field for the money. (Normies) Some because they like the field and the culture of it. (Nerds, Geeks, etc.) Anyway man, thanks for letting us queers to be a part of the IT community. Seriously, sometimes I wonder if computers didn’t exist where did I have to go lol. This community is the only place that I am accepted in.
I’ve always just been excited when other people are excited about it.
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog