#GM Interesting observation==== Why is it that all the women in my life are fine with Windows and Facebook? They don't mind that a screenshot every 5 seconds is sent to the mothership. The men in my life are all interested in security, Nostr, Linux? Why do you think this is a thing?
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It’s definitely not sexism. Right? This is me being 100% sarcastic.
STEM in the #USA is very sexist towards women. I’ve seen it be better in other countries and hope it gets better here. Truly.
How many of the men have been harassed by the police? How many of the women have?
There's some ego to it perhaps -- we men sometimes like to think we're protecting some top secret information crucial to the resistance, or at least like to pretend we're secret agents. But on the other extreme I feel like a lot of women get lulled into a complacency because, at least for white middle class women, the likelihood that the state has ever seemed like much of a threat is particularly low, unless they've set out to make themselves a threat to it (love those ladies ;-) ).
I've been stopped enough times by police just for minding my own business walking down the street to not have any regard for their panopticon state. Guess I can't speak for anyone else's rationale.