Abigail was an inspiration because if one can have a top-flight woman programmer then one can also have a top-flight 48-year-old programmer.

Too bad.

What's too bad is that you'd respect a woman for struggling to the top, yet you fail to realize that gender ambiguity is frought with far more struggles internally and externally than come with just being anatomically correct. Personally I find the ability of Abigail to maintain gender ambiguity on-line while being so high profile over the years and maintaining a high level of excellence is inspiring in itself.

Too bad you can't see that.

coreolyn - Anatomical gender should be irrelevant socially and especially programatically.

In reply to Re: Omigawd! Surprised by Reality! by coreolyn
in thread Omigawd! Surprised by Reality! by sierrathedog04

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