Good gods, I hate the patronising tone we women technologists get. I’ve hated pink since I was a little girl raised by a woman who thought pink was overrated and let me have my opinions regardless of gender. So I hate pink. It’s not an aesthetically pleasing colour, and I don’t want to see it on my very favourite things. Give me purple or green (one could, for example, expose the circuit boards inside – those are green!), and I’m in. But really, it’s all part of a bigger problem in technology. The first question people ask after I tell them I study computer engineering is “I’m sure you like having all those boys in your class”, as if I study computer engineering to get a husband! Fine, so we’re about 5% girls, but that doesn’t mean we don’t count in the long run. We don’t do pink gadgets.

Also. Faux snakeskin? PINK?! What the hell do these people think we are? Deluded fashionistas so long gone in fashion-world that we can’t differentiate between tasteful and tasteless anymore?

i found you today via a post you wrote on Mums Rock and i couldn’t agree with your sentiments more, us women are interested in a whole let more than nappies, diaper bags and condescending ‘specially made pink stuff. Grr, it all makes me so mad.