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13yrTeslaGirl

Sat Feb 26 2011, 10:40PM

Registered Member #3719 Joined: Sat Feb 26 2011, 10:37PM
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Anyone think chauvenism is too big in this world? Everyone on youtube thinks I am a boy, because I love high voltage! What the heck? C'mon! Girls can love high voltage too!

Martin King

Sat Feb 26 2011, 11:49PM

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To be fair you may be misunderstanding the meaning of chauvinism. It actually means the belief that men are superior to women. Mistaking someone for the opposite sex due to their interests (particularly on the internet) is just a fact of life and doesn't necessarily indicate any malice. After all if someone posted video's about knitting would you assume they were female? I suspect you would even though I know several men who knit. Now if people were to say that you shouldn't be interested in HV because you're a girl then that would be unacceptable. Personally I just think of contacts on the internet as "people" neither male or female, obviously in most cases I know their sex (although there are some people I don't) but it's irrelevant to me.

So post some HV related stuff, as long as it's within the rules I doubt anyone here will care about your sex or age.

Martin.

Inducktion

Sun Feb 27 2011, 12:16AM

Registered Member #3637 Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
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Yeah, I guess it's sort of the same thing with video games, no one expects to see a girl on there. Though, times are changing, and girls are starting to become more and more prevalent in previously "boys only" activities. I think it's great, personally.

Patrick

Sun Feb 27 2011, 07:43AM

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I second that which Martin has said...

Sulaiman

Sun Feb 27 2011, 09:45AM

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I suspect that you will be subject to quite a bit of discrimination as a female interrested in high voltages / electronics etc.
POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION !
Don't be upset by it - use it !

The real world is full of discrimination - it's a natural human condition, like it or not.

If you look through 4HV you will see many discussions of how you (young people) are more likely to be discriminated against amongst peers as a techie/geek/nerd........ not gender.

13yrTeslaGirl

Mon Feb 28 2011, 01:17AM

Registered Member #3719 Joined: Sat Feb 26 2011, 10:37PM
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:P I guess ur right. Now I don't know men who knit, but I know they do.

Muttyfutty!

Mon Feb 28 2011, 09:04AM

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I knitted a scarf a couple of months back. My whole class thought it was strange, then some other guys started knitting, and the trend kind of caught on.
It isn't that difficult to break these stereotypes

13yrTeslaGirl

Wed Mar 02 2011, 11:37PM

Registered Member #3719 Joined: Sat Feb 26 2011, 10:37PM
Location: Orlando, FL
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I get stereotyped in school. Just because I like high voltage and I like to act weird... I am bullied. That is why the internet is there. To make friends who can't judge you by first sight. Also, this IS a high voltage forum after all, so, yeah.

3l3ctrici7y

Sun Mar 06 2011, 10:45AM

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Hi 13yrTeslaGirl, and welcome :)

I'm a guy, but I never really fit in well at school either.
I always considered it a badge of honor when the other kids gave me a hard time, what with them being such idiot mongrels after all. One time when I was 12 or 13, I had just said something or explained something, and some of the other kids looked at me funny and one told me to stop using such big words.

You're smarter than they are, and they are intimidated by it, particularly because you're a girl. Stay strong, and follow your dreams.

You might be interested to read about Limor Fried. She oft goes by the name Lady Ada, after Ada Lovelace (another interesting female engineer). Limor was educated at MIT and has earned a masters degree in electrical engineering.

hsieh

Sun Mar 06 2011, 02:13PM

Registered Member #1412 Joined: Thu Mar 27 2008, 04:07PM
Location: Taipei Taiwan
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13yrTeslaGirl wrote ...

I get stereotyped in school. Just because I like high voltage and I like to act weird... I am bullied. That is why the internet is there. To make friends who can't judge you by first sight. Also, this IS a high voltage forum after all, so, yeah.

I have s similiar problem.I'm a electronic engineering freshman.When I use the etching maching in a school lab,everyone there think I'm crazy.They don't understand why a freshman want to etch PCBs and why electronics can be a hobby.

Some schoolmate ask me why build those useless Tesla Coil that has no practical use.Some people tell me they think any other hobby is better than building these useless Tesla coil.
Many classmates says that they study electronics only because this can make money and they don't like electronics at all!

Finally I found someone who build electronics circuits as a hobby.But he said that Tesla Coil is boring and audio things are much more interesting.

When I was in high school many classmates think my hobbies(model aircraft and electronics) is silly and always make fun of me.My high school is believed to be the best high school in Taiwan! But students there still make fun of people who don't think like them.

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