Looking over both your post and the comments people seem to have missed some of the key things. Sarah is a journalist not a techie or even a geek as such. Yes she has a knowledge of the tech industry but she doesn’t necessarily have the skills of an interviewer on a stage. That is a VERY hard thing to do with little experience. It’s a shame that they didn’t request people to send in questions prior to the event.

In some ways this situation could be said to be a mis management of the conference session rather than an error on Sarah’s part… The questions were indeed predictable and some what dull. The other question is how much of the proposed questions were veto’d by the interviewee! That does happen.

On the women tech thing… I think the comments in your post say a lot. Yes women in tech are still treated differently and yes it’s down to social upbringing and stereotypes. So lets try changing that… break down stereotypes and call people on making assumptions about people based on looks, gender, race etc. It’s old and it’s not clever.

I’ve been at a technical conference all week this week and yes once again I still get asked why I am there, how am I techncial and so on. The best thing about it other than the great material is that there are no queues in the bathrooms. Just a shame about attitudes of those who are used to be in an all or majority male environment.

Girly Girls get looked at differently in tech, assumptions are made and geez does it get frustrating. ;) But better than that you can still surprise and shock people. I actually enjoy playing with the guys at these conferences. Let them dig themselves in holes and then surprise them with tech knowledge and a strong technical skills set! Eventually if all women did that in the industry they would learn not to make assumption ;)

I think this sentence is sexist.

So, if this woman makes a bad interview, or whatever, she gives girls in tech a bad name.

But if she would have been a man, would “he” have given men in tech a bad name?

No. So stop this nonsense.

She doesn’t speaks for me, nor for anyone else but for her.

Stop saying that the actitude of one (1!!!) woman says something about the rest of the women.

Stop being sexist.

I took the test and have discovered that Asians moderately preferred Gia to other white girls.

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Yes, there’s obviously misogyny involved… too bad most male geeks can’t accept that. Though that’s telling in itself.

Regardless of whether she was any good or not, it’s fairly obvious to me that if she’d been a suited male business journo, the audience would have been contended just to grumble under their breaths (and on Twitter, of course).

To be honest, I wasn’t surprised at my result. I’ve always noticed I have a preference for Asian (again, Oriental) faces for some reason. Yes, even before my beautiful niece came into the world! Why that might be though, I don’t know.

But I don’t believe people think, ‘they’re all Asian, black etc.’. I think the attitude is more that integration between these groups should be no different to integration with the indigenous population. They are all essentially becoming British after all, plus migrant groups tend to share common problems. Although equally, you have to respect (and expect) some cultural and historical differences and difficulties. Not too sure on this one.

Reminds me of the time that Moki thought he was part Korean because Silver was.

Sorry…it’s my influence on the poor lad. ;-)

Do you think Sari would get the same result?

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On a different note…it’s common to group all of us Asians together in one group, but it is common (or uncommon) knowledge that we don’t always get along.

Until recently, (e.g. my dad’s generation), this is how things were like…

China vs Japan = Jews vs Nazi Germany
Korea vs Japan = Lebanon vs Israel
Hmong, Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian…yeah we all have issues.

But in American, we are all grouped into a lump sum. I blame the lack of education over here.