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I totally missed the "levity" / "float" correlation in my last tweet. I'm making puns within my puns & laughing at myself. OverTheCliffMols
What is with me and the puns lately? I'm either on an obsessive rant or making god-awful puns. Levity while writing about floats, I suppose.
I think that landed me squarely back in pun prison, where I shall go have some tea while waiting for your pardons. EnoughWithDaGoddessMols
@johnmerritt I like that idea. Shall we say it has merit?
@Rocketpilot O'Reilly is just as guilty as No Starch IMO. They have a strongly alpha geek brand as well. This is a break-out book for both.
@johnmerritt exactly! Today's geek goddess is concerned with her code quality first, her shoes only after a successful QA. process :)
@xtynan - I want to clarify: My rant is not about your book's content. It's about the context, gender bias and marketing within a brand.
Gender and culture shape our perception and dealings with the world around us. Egalitarian meaning is what I'm after, IOW God = Goddess
@sentience Sociologically & anthropologically speaking, absolutely. It's why we do studies of female versus male behavior in a board room.
@johnmerritt Every boy geek knows that Mountain Dew has more caffeine than Coke. Every boy geek has pimples, greasy hair, and glasses...
My rant is a result of blown expectations. I saw How to be a Geek Goddess" from No Starch and thought "Wow, a book about great tech women!"
@xtynan As author of "Geek Goddess" you say "Press release was condescending" - how does the book's message differ from the market spin?
"How do you write a tech book specifically for men without making demeaning assumptions? Is such a book even needed? . . .
@sentience In the next tweet I will simply change the gender in your question as a Mols' "snappy answer"
Still laughing at "Tim Berners-Lee in a toga" - y'all are more twisted than I am, you know that, right? ;)