Greetings from the Kunstkamera stereotypes or “Girl in IT!” = “Guinea pig”

    Prehistoric


    It may turn out that the search in Habr failed me, and all this has been discussed here more than once. I even guess that all this has really been discussed, caught karma on both sides, gained fat from holivars (thousands of them). All this has an exclusively indirect relation to IT; rather, it is a matter of psychology and even biology. I often hear different things as comments on what I do. Absolutely different - it can be like just bewilderment (“Are you a coder? But you're a girl!”), Surprise (“How do you manage to combine tits and html ?!”), admiration (“You're smart, I don't know how!”) misunderstanding (“What did you forget in technicals? I’d sit and draw something.”), rejection (“Better go, it’s more to your face and to the floor.”) or humiliation (“You’re like a guinea pig - not to the sea, you have nothing to do with pigs. ”).

    To the fact that not all opinions are worth paying attention to, I came even before the start of my sufficiently liberal education. Being not a blonde 90x60x90, but her inverted way, she felt at school all the power of the title of "white crow" and the anger of adolescents, turned on those who do not weave in their henchman. In the 8-9th class, I tried to cling to this henchman, but this did not help me to become among them equal by their standards. From the very beginning, they got used to the fact that it makes sense to me only to spread rot or beg for my homework in Russian and literature. Since then, I did not need to fit into the standards, because there was no desire to feel like the quintessential stereotype.

    But I do not want to talk about who these fat people are (I have a hereditary parameter), but about why it is so difficult to perceive a girl who is engaged in non-humanitarian sciences. This is especially evident in competitions of technical specialties, for example, of a university like MATI named after Tsiolkovsky - there are practically no girls who want to become engineers. So it was during my mother’s studies, who still teaches compromising materials, aircraft designs, etc., confidently designs in almost any CAD system (from SolidWorks to little-known and highly protected domestic developments) and is well trained in terms of computer programs in different directions.

    History tour


    Since ancient times, there is a stereotype that the earner in the family is a man. He is brave, he is logical, he is strong, he is the line of power. A woman is his support and support, his rear. So to say, neck under the head. I can’t say that it was bad and penile carriers had to be strangled in infancy. This is too ridiculous and ridiculous, because nature is built on balance. There is someone to give birth to and from whom to give birth, there is time to throw stones and collect them. One cannot even say that the presence of a man in power in a state is a sign of his (state) militancy. Wars are going on because the king’s wife asked for a coat, or she will tell everyone that he is sleeping with his first adviser. The notorious brulik must be taken from somewhere, and in the treasury the treasurer hanged himself from the absence of the object of work.

    In ancient Greece, a woman could not be an actor in an amphitheater. In ancient Egypt, a woman had more rights than in Christianity, including the opportunity to become a ruler. Non-biological sex in antiquity was not a rare occurrence in both sexes. But women never went to war, they never hunted, they did not hold public office, they did not do heavy work like construction or blacksmithing. In Christianity, a woman generally has the unenviable role of a sinner who brazenly grabs an apple. The world is changing, but so far people have a strange attitude towards misalliances, the woman at the loom, the man in pointe shoes and many other things that have ceased to be forbidden and bad manners. Because there are stereotypes, practically absorbed with mother’s milk in our psyche. You cannot get rid of them on a societal scale, but you can get rid of them within yourself.

    Excursion to Psychology


    If you simplify all thuy hechi definitions, research and research, a stereotype is a stamp. The template on the basis of which the concept of the social stratum is built, about the person in this stratum, about his possible behavior, values ​​and other attributes. A small example: The person standing in front of you wears a black jacket, grinders and is currently listening to the player. If you nevertheless decide to bother him (you never know, Mb is angry and furious, all in the skin, a long haer, bots such that you can kill the whole future generation with one blow) and ask that he is listening to such an interesting answer, what kind of answer are you waiting for ? It’s clearly not the name of the Israeli duet who writes a worthy trance with an admixture of national color, said quite politely and maliciously.

    In the example, we are faced with two aspects of behavior unusual for the interlocutor designated by metalhead.tpl's eye - firstly, no grunts, grunts and rudeness, and even less so a green blow to the groin did not follow, and secondly, the player is not Asphalt Hero and not a System of a Down song about Linux encoding issues. Exaggerated, of course, but revealing. A girl who knows how to handle technology at a level higher than capsular blondes is something unrealistic from a series of Martians in War of the Worlds. A man in a corps de ballet is necessarily a homosexual with masochistic inclinations. The granny, who writes in boiling water from the new addition to Half-Life, has no normative description in the archives of our psyche. And by the way, this is a very real case from the experience of my girlfriend at the box office. We are surprised by downshifters, we cannot understand how can one voluntarily give up a good position with good money and good prospects for even better money. It is difficult for us to understand how people who work well and successfully develop not working in the office of Wussy Poupkine Ltd., but at home and for themselves.

    There are many things that a person does not like. For example, a person never gets used to pain. Danger! The first human instinct is self-preservation. For him, pain is an indicator that he instinctively does something wrong, that something is going wrong. Since childhood, we know that you can’t stick your hand into the fire, poke your fingers into the socket. Most of these certainly useful cliches are learned by us from the experience of our ancestors. We are taught by parents, not always explaining why (however, this is a pedagogical question), we are taught by a school, a street. They give us social cliches - we need to study at five, higher education is a prerequisite for success, a career should only advance (or you are a sucker), a woman should give birth, cook and wash socks, a man should get nishtyaki for sharpening.

    A person does not like to be mistaken, because often mistakes entail pain. Not physical, so mental. Naturally, no one likes to repeat painful mistakes, so the next similar situation causes a behavior that has already been adjusted and laid out in the scheme, which does not roll back unnecessary sensations. All this is systematized and subsequently practically does not change until the rooster bursts. These systematic lines of behavior can last long, several generations, before the rooster still breaks, and the line of behavior will either have to be drastically changed in stress mode, or go along the same thumb and miss some unclear opportunity. Many prefer to be limited to the latter.

    Non-standard about standard


    Our life is subject to certain laws. As well as the page with html-markup. In the header, we have temperament registered as a title, character meta tags, style files with a description of the associative perception of people around us and life events, and scripts for processing and generating behavior. In the body of the document there is a marking of the main life milestones, the circumstances surrounding them and minor incidents with the copyrights of the parents in the footer, which according to the design and usability should be nailed to the floor. Styles and scripts in the header written by parents give the statics of associations and the dynamics of human behavior for all markup tags.

    After the markup originally written by the parents, other developers are engaged in us, adding new markup, styles, scripts under the current conditions. First, school, then institute, work, spouse (a), and then we write the pages of children. We are both the pages and the developers of these pages. We can rewrite ourselves as well, but not everyone is ready to rewrite ourselves, to append and generally improve the code of ourselves. But we love to rewrite others to our needs, and we are even afraid to give aka psychologists to the development gurus, but we trust them even more than ourselves.

    Not every developer constantly writes something of his own, very often he uses ready-made, already written by someone solutions. As in working with code, and in working with the psyche (yes,% username%, this is also work, I tell you as a teacher by training), such decisions accelerate the process of developing a project and getting a working result. Mental stamps accumulate in consciousness, pass from parents to children, and then to grandchildren. In portals, for example, CSS sometimes grows to disastrous proportions - old styles that the new developer is simply afraid to touch, so as not to ruin what is. The volume of behavioral stereotypes is also expanding, accumulating old approaches along with new dynamics.

    Summing up the topic


    Since the appearance of the first computers "in Russia", often assembled by enthusiasts from improvised materials, because they simply could not or were expensive to buy in the store, statistics tell us one thing - men do it. Girls at the computer began to appear, mainly only in firms that computerized the workflow and transplanted their secretaries and accountants from typewriters to keyboards. Progress is rolling - the Internet is growing, ICQ, chat rooms, and forums are appearing. The image of the blonde capsule has formed - “EVERYTHING IN THIS CHAT!” You can talk for a long time about why this image is not diluted, leaving again the stereotypes of “beautiful fool”, “kept woman”, “bedding for the boss”, “It’s the woman’s business to give birth” to other joys of the present and the past. To the fact that a girl can really fumble something in IT, the post-Soviet world will not come soon. A person is initially mentally lazy, and the Russian person generally relies for the most part on chance.

    In fact, if you delve into yourself, you can (and quite easily) come to the understanding that there are simply no differences between a man and a woman in professional opportunities. And there wasn’t. If a person has the ability for languages, he is able to learn English, German and French, regardless of gender. If a person has the ability to analyze and predict, he can be played on the stock exchange without harming the wallet, whether he is a woman or a man. If a person can draw, he can be both an artist and an artist. Correction for the specifics of the profession is not necessary at all. If a girl is interested in the field of web development, not only from the point of view of prettiness, but also from the point of view of how it should work, what internal and external relations the development product has,

    Финализируем


    Actually, why does the Chukchi nevertheless become a writer, and not just a reader? In search of an opportunity to get an invite to Habrahabr, I ran into an invite distribution site for any resources. In the comments to the Habr section, an IT specialist unsubscribed, requested an invite. It’s clear that they do not like beggars, especially in closed communities, but how much did you have to go down below the plinth to comment on her request with that same notorious phrase about guinea pig? It still disturbs such a memory, although it was not addressed to me, I am not even registered on that resource. The logical question arises - how do you,% username%, know that this girl does not write in Java with dignity or does not follow a grid of computers in any frim, at least 20-30 pieces? But along the way, this question begs by no means all,

    No longer relevant paragraph: I do not hope for an invite, even for at least a superficial understanding of the issue raised in the post. I do not have the right to teach experienced people how to live, I do not have the right to get into someone else's life and other people's habits. It’s just that if someone had told me (so far, the glory of the Abode of Peace, no one has thought of it yet) that I am a guinea pig with all the consequences and my place is on the stove, and not on the html editor, this person would lose the opportunity to continue the clan. And although not ... I want to get an invite before the topic about Iota goes to the far pages, because I really want to cheer up on the fact that in our office on Novy Arbat this thing works through I won’t say what.

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