Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention

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by nosilver • 15 years ago

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Jun8• 15 years ago

From the original article "Der Hacker mit dem Comic-Mann-Aussehen redet sich in Rage..."

A little irrelevant to this post, but one thing I find very interesting is this: Generally gender imbalance in CS is explained as due to an environment that is hostile to women (even a Start Trek poster in the classroom). In writing, the pronoun "she" is usually used in examples, to avoid "sexist language"

Yet, the fact that "Hacker" has a masculine article doesn't bother the German female hackers. Articles for foreign adopted words are generally determined phonetically, AFAIK, but still. Do we refer to female hackers as "die Hackerin" :-) What is the article in other languages, French, Italian, etc (I would be very surprised if any had a feminine article)?

teashorts2• 15 years ago

>Yet, the fact that "Hacker" has a masculine article doesn't bother the >German female hackers.

Why would that bother them, if they have their own term ("die Hackerin")?

mwhite• 15 years ago

Perhaps "die Häckse": https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/wiki/Haeckse

diN0bot• 15 years ago

wie Hexe! love it.

sebkomianos• 15 years ago

You can use both articles in Greek.

teashorts2• 15 years ago

If you can, read the original article (in German): http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/besuch-beim-chaos-communi...

Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention

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