Women tech writers and tech-thinkers are regularly excluded from stupid listicles, women coders are erased, diminished, never mentioned.
I’m infuriated by the idea that female visibility in tech can be fixed with some bandaid Hall of Fame.
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And honestly, this isn’t just a sexism problem, the vision of a “hacker" as a young single man has hurt tech in many ways.
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It has led to an inefficient/unbalanced expectation of working hours. It has led job insecurity for older coders.
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Maybe the weirdest effect has been the stereotype that echoes through the CFAA: hackers are young, mischievous men who need to be controlled
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Isn’t that a weird one to think about? That we might have less stupid laws if we didn’t accept the male-dominated stereotype of hackers?
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Would “anti-hacking statute” have the same connotation if “coding” was just as likely to conjure up a picture of a woman?
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I know that seems like a weird contention. But I’m thinking abt a bunch of badly decided cybercrime cases w/ a male “perp” and a female vic.
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What if cyber law was not just about protecting women and children from nasty male hackers?
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(What if when we wrote laws, we took into account a coder's freedom to tinker, and when we thought “coder,” we thought about women and men?)
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