A Microcosm Of Masochism

[fearthemeatball]

A Question: In the thingers I'm reading right now for my lit review, it says that girls have a stereotype of doing worse at computers than guys. it also says that there is a tendancy for teachers to pay more attention to guys and there computer problems than to girls. when i was in school...computers were a relatively new thing, and on top of

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[shallowesque]

Girls Have The Edge In New Technologies.

I was one of the best computer students in my schools, tied with two dudes (friends of mine, so...geeks of a feather, I guess). The teachers basically left us alone. That said, the worst students in my comp sci class were all girls and the teacher basically ignored them, but--that was my second teacher who basically ignored all of us and rambled on about how much he missed Greece rather than teaching us anything.

So: girls kick ass at tech, my teachers were either incredibly awesome or incredibly incompetent and therefore do not really figure well into stats, and I have no idea.

[fearthemeatball]

meh...i just think dudes insane....but then again, i tend to think that about MOST of the author's from the peer-reviewed sites...except one dude who was really fun to read...buuuuuuuuuuut he had no research, so i couldn't use it...wow...i'm bunny trailing here...so yeah.
stopping now :S

[crevanfox]

I've heard there is a fair bit of research stating that girls get the fuzzy end of the lollipop on a lot of hard sciences (math, science, etc.) and it's pulled out everytime someone want to introduce seperate classes for each gender, or a new cirriculuum that appeals to how girls learn.

Personally, I've always had teachers who hated their job and neglected us all fairly equally. I can think of only one exception: a gym teacher who got drafted into teaching English and Math and ignored and/or berated the girls for basically existing and breathing.