Guilt is exhausting

Yet again the media is full of how women are being abused and oppressed. This has led to another round of "why aren't there more women in IT?" and the usual response that it must be because IT is full of misogynists. After decades of being beat on and told that I'm a bad person and that I'm to blame for all the troubles that women have in society, I've had it. I'm no longer able to feel guilty about it. In fact, I'm tired of being used as a scapegoat. I've been in the business for a long time and I've never seen women treated in the discriminatory way that I keep hearing about. These days when somebody starts spouting off that particular line of Politically Correct bullshit, I no longer am willing to give them a lot of credence on anything else they may have to say.

Yeah, there has been a decrease in the number of women in IT and I don't think it is a good thing. There are a lot of factors leading to the change. There was an interesting article publish by the Association of Computing Machinery about a year ago that went into a lot of the social reasons. It was very un-PC. At this point the IT business is no longer a level playing ground for women, instead they have a lot of advantages and they still want more. This sort of behaviour is starting to lead to a strong backlash, which is also going to be a bit unpleasant.

I'm happy to treat women as equals, it just seems that's not what they actually want and they probably aren't wired for. Too bad, it's their loss.