It’s odd in the Australian public service, with COBOL programmers. They’ve been in the job long enough that they started when the public service was the only employer who would employ women as programmers. I’m on the systems analyst side of the fence, the programmers I have worked with include a bit more than 60% women
I think all the programmers I know are married or gay or not interested. I think the gay ones are mostly married too.
There are those who transition, so a significant chunk of that male programmer population is “male” as in quotation marks, only that some transition earlier than others. Does not guarantee that you can get the transgender autistic puppygirl (or other variations) of your dreams, since many of them are lesbians.
But also feel free to look outside your field for a partner. It’s okay to date an artist as a programmer.
Feels weird reading this as the only straight single woman programmer in my friend group, and also as the worst one who got a job outside tech for now and likes it enough to possibly stay out of tech, although I feel super guilty for that given tech would make more money. Feel like my CS degree is going to waste
Don’t worry. I mean nothing but humour by it. I myself am married to a physicist who takes absolutely no interest whatsoever in programming, but can talk happily for ages about something weird they found.
There are far more male programmers… As a programmer, be gay or stay alone… Choose!
It’s odd in the Australian public service, with COBOL programmers. They’ve been in the job long enough that they started when the public service was the only employer who would employ women as programmers. I’m on the systems analyst side of the fence, the programmers I have worked with include a bit more than 60% women
I think all the programmers I know are married or gay or not interested. I think the gay ones are mostly married too.
It’s not gay if I’m wearing programming socks.
There are those who transition, so a significant chunk of that male programmer population is “male” as in quotation marks, only that some transition earlier than others. Does not guarantee that you can get the transgender autistic puppygirl (or other variations) of your dreams, since many of them are lesbians.
But also feel free to look outside your field for a partner. It’s okay to date an artist as a programmer.
Feels weird reading this as the only straight single woman programmer in my friend group, and also as the worst one who got a job outside tech for now and likes it enough to possibly stay out of tech, although I feel super guilty for that given tech would make more money. Feel like my CS degree is going to waste
Oh that explains why my wife is gay
She sleeps with men, that’s pretty gay
There are a lot of things she does but that aint one of them
Thats a hell of a way to find out.
Think you forgot to check their username before commenting that haha
And clearly it worked!
If she was around the same cs students as me then yeah
Ouch!
Can programmers only be with other programmers or am I missing something?
But you kind of have to leave the house for that… I mean… We talk about programmers…
/s
“JSON parser 100% from scratch in Haskell in 110 lines” doesn’t get you horny? I guess some people are just wired differently.
I’m a programmer myself but my wife isn’t a programmer, that was my motivation for questioning.
Oh, is she, like, an EE or something? Maybe a web designer?
Don’t worry. I mean nothing but humour by it. I myself am married to a physicist who takes absolutely no interest whatsoever in programming, but can talk happily for ages about something weird they found.
Well yeah, obv. But not enough girls in computer science, so like the fishes, some of them magically turn into girls after a while.