No matter what is it you do, your girlfriend will tell people you’re ‘really really good with computers’. This is a universal truth. There is no way your girlfriend will be able to fully comprehend what you do.
How misogynistic! My girlfriend is an entrepreneur. She understands what I do perfectly well.
Learn to be mean. It’s not in our nature to be mean. We want to help everyone. But it’s exactly what you need when you don’t want to be pushed around. If you’re mean every once in a while, girls will stop seeing you as a usable object (see #7) and more as a potential partner that can equal them. This is the reason people tell you to learn to say no. Tip: playfully call them names every now and then.
Wtf? Why not slap her around while you're at it, I hear it teaches them females to pay proper respects and all. At least those of the author's species.
Dude, slap her around? Seriously? You honestly think this equates. Apparently your entrepreneur girlfriend is one of the few females you've interacted with. You absolutely need to bite back a little bit. Here's misogyny for you: 90% of women I've been romantically involved with will take take take until I put my foot down. Women seem to have no self control when it comes to selfish behavior.
For what it's worth, it is true that the average person will know nothing much more than "you're really good with computers". Yes, you may have the exception, but the exception it is, and it is not being mean to say so. (Perhaps a touch misogynistic to single out "girlfriends" for this status when it is, as I say, a general rule for all people, but it is still a true statement and that counts for something.)
Oh dear, here's something I wrote over 3 years ago all up on Hacker News. Thanks for publicly shaming me!
Here we go. This was ironic, firmly tongue in cheek, over the top, joking. No, I don't think "females" are "too dumb to appreciate what we do". I know plenty of women that are way smarter than I'll ever be. Most of the points in this article can be carried over to a female geek plus male non-geek relationship as well (check the comments).
FWIW, this had been given the green light and agreed with by a fair number of girls both before and after posting.
Now, everybody relax and don't panic. Don't take the ranting of a 18 year old nerdy boy as truth ;)
It's fun to read, but it makes an implicit assumption that all women are dumb and cannot appreciate what you do. That's certainly not true, I can prove it.
I have a friend, she's an MD. She once asked me to teach her programming and I said sure. Instead of starting to explain things to her I just wrote a relatively simple piece of code and asked her to tell me what it meant. I was truly surprised when the next day she did that almost perfectly. Of course she googled some basic things, yeah, but I was impressed by how a girl who had no prior training in programming figured it all out.
How misogynistic! My girlfriend is an entrepreneur. She understands what I do perfectly well.
Learn to be mean. It’s not in our nature to be mean. We want to help everyone. But it’s exactly what you need when you don’t want to be pushed around. If you’re mean every once in a while, girls will stop seeing you as a usable object (see #7) and more as a potential partner that can equal them. This is the reason people tell you to learn to say no. Tip: playfully call them names every now and then.
Wtf? Why not slap her around while you're at it, I hear it teaches them females to pay proper respects and all. At least those of the author's species.