Get it? She meets geek? Yeah, thanks go to Clive for that stroke of genius. And more thanks go to the people behind www.itgoddess.info. They've brought together IT babes (?), photoshop skills, and our favorite movie lasses to produce the Screen Goddess IT Calendar. It's pretty fun. And there are some legit babes in the mix. As well as some fun with fonts. The higher goal of the calendar is to encourage more women to enter IT, cause they aren't at the moment. Odds are it'll mislead more men into the trade, cause now there's more than java at the end of the rainbow. There are, like, major babes there too. Helloooo Halle Berry white bikini clad Sharon.
Much better way to get gals into IT: Come up with the equivalent of the Vancouver Fire Department's Flame calendar. C'mon people.
Well, don't you just love that long...hose inbetween his legs? Point is - beefcake is beefcake, cheesecake is cheesecake. Those IT ladies are out of their minds. Go ahead and read my rants about them if you like over at Thus Spake Zuska! It's so depressing to see women so willing to be complicit in their own oppression.
Posted by: Zuska | July 31, 2006 at 03:15 PM
I was beaten to the punch by Zuska - I was going to point you over to her place.
Posted by: sciencewoman | July 31, 2006 at 05:18 PM
Sorry but this calender is ick. Try filing under "like, ew?" instead of "chic geek". I am so over this kind of tired sexist crap being passed off like some kind of neato post-feminist empowerment. It's a dumb, meatball calender that degrades all us IT women yet again.
Posted by: Icky_I_Say | July 31, 2006 at 06:18 PM
What I want to know is, where do lonesome sheeks hang out in Vancouver? Because there are herds (he-nerds) who are flockless to find out. Is there like an Appreciation of Science Society, or perhaps a Prevention of Ignorance of Science Society to be attended? She meets geek, he meets sheek? Seriously..
Posted by: evilC | August 01, 2006 at 08:47 AM
Never before has the topic of women in IT been so actively debated - the claendar has been a catalyst for getting the topic on the table and our of just IT circles. More and more serious media are starting to carry stories about the real issues. Like it or not the calendar HAS started to achieve on it's goals.
And proving it is more than a flash cover and has multi dimensions - screen goddess IT calendar announced geek tech competitions - where placed and hidden technology are in each calendar image. more info on: http://itgoddess.info/competitions.htm
also goddess screen saver version now available....https://www.itgoddess.info/orders/
move beyond the flash "american beauty" cover and get into "Inspect for Gadgets" or "LaMarr Code" competitions.
Posted by: sonja Bernhardt | August 16, 2006 at 07:24 PM