Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?

Re:Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women? by Main_ on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @08:14AM (#13875532)

I was watching the "Silicon Valley" TV show and was surprised how women are presented. Whether they are coders or non-tech, the theme went like this:

Women who Code: always ask fellow men for help with their coding skills or just appear to not know what they were doing. Present them as sex objects, where men are thinking of them just for sex

Women who can't code: generally presented either as stupid, dumb or as assistants of men who knew better.

It seem that Hollywood is also complicit in presenting women as sex object. But I wasn't sure if this really is the truth about the culture in general in SV.

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Re:Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women? by prostoalex on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @09:43AM (#13875997)

> Women who Code: always ask fellow men for help with their coding skills or just appear to not know what they were doing. Present them as sex objects, where men are thinking of them just for sex

Carla played by http://www.hbo.com/silicon-valley/cast-and-crew/alice-wetter... was a prominent woman coder with none of what you described exhibited.

Granted, I can't think of any other female coding characters on that show.

Did you mean the HBO "Silicon Valley" show or a Bravo TV series with the same name (later re-branded "Start-Ups")?

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Re:Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women? by Main_ on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:51PM (#13878687)

I meant the HBO one. I didn't see Carla yet, I'm in season 1 still. But so far it's not really women friendly.

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