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Many men assume that women know little about technical/geeky subjects, and will speak condescendingly to them. Examples of such condescension include: * Assuming that women at geeky events are new to that geek community and/or are beginners in that technical area ("it's so brave of you to get involved, well done") * Assuming that women who do not hold CS and engineering degrees are incapable of understanding technical details. * Treating minor or moderate accomplishments like miracles if performed by a woman. * Assuming that any women at geeky events is attending with a male partner who is the actual geek ("so, you're here with your husband I guess?", see Here with my boyfriend) * Assuming that a woman who is attending with a male partner or who has a more involved male p

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rdfs:comment	Many men assume that women know little about technical/geeky subjects, and will speak condescendingly to them. Examples of such condescension include: * Assuming that women at geeky events are new to that geek community and/or are beginners in that technical area ("it's so brave of you to get involved, well done") * Assuming that women who do not hold CS and engineering degrees are incapable of understanding technical details. * Treating minor or moderate accomplishments like miracles if performed by a woman. * Assuming that any women at geeky events is attending with a male partner who is the actual geek ("so, you're here with your husband I guess?", see Here with my boyfriend) * Assuming that a woman who is attending with a male partner or who has a more involved male p
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abstract	Many men assume that women know little about technical/geeky subjects, and will speak condescendingly to them. Examples of such condescension include: * Assuming that women at geeky events are new to that geek community and/or are beginners in that technical area ("it's so brave of you to get involved, well done") * Assuming that women who do not hold CS and engineering degrees are incapable of understanding technical details. * Treating minor or moderate accomplishments like miracles if performed by a woman. * Assuming that any women at geeky events is attending with a male partner who is the actual geek ("so, you're here with your husband I guess?", see Here with my boyfriend) * Assuming that a woman who is attending with a male partner or who has a more involved male partner is not also interested in joining the community or learning more for its own sake * Assuming that women at technical events are there in a marketing, media reporter and interviewer role, community organization or sales role (see also Pigeonholing) * Mansplaining: explaining something to a woman with the tacit assumption that she is technically inexpert. (Geeksplaining is the non-gender-specific equivalent.) * Male geeks sometimes talk about a specific non-technical or non-geeky woman (most often their own wife or girlfriend, but also often their mother) as if her non-geeky interests make her an uninteresting or unintelligent person (see also So simple, your mother could do it) * Male geeks sometimes make statements about "our girlfriends", "our wives", and "explaining to girls" (in a dating context). This is both Condescension as well as Othering for those that are not heterosexual males. * Articles about how something geeky is becoming mainstream often use a woman participant as an example ("even my wife now uses Linux") and hypothetical examples of non-geeky or non-technical people are disproportionately hypothetical women rather than men. * A woman giving a technical talk often has her talk downplayed and labeled as a "beginner talk". The same talk given by a man might be labeled "intermediate" * Open-source projects led by women are often not taken seriously, regarded instead as toy projects that can't be used in real-life situations General examples include: * Assuming that a woman is complaining, in a bad mood, or angry because of her hormonal activity status, not other ("more valid") reasons Condescension is often well-intentioned and sometimes perpetrated by men genuinely intending to welcome more women to geek communities. This can be related to the issue of invisibility, in which the work of a small number of involved women is ignored.

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