generic profile pictures are so annoying

and stop showing faces, if I'd want to see people I would leave my fucking room.

@lucy no

@Ox why?

@lucy cause it's my face and people show me their true colours this way

@Ox how is that related?

@lucy there's a notable difference in the amount of misogyny and sexism I receive when it's blatant I'm a woman. when I used other pictures I was treated differently. I would rather know straight up who is a sexist and who isn't

@lucy I also I like to be a friendly face for women new here so they know it's not just tech bros

@Ox I didn't choose to be born a "tech bro", whatever this means

@lucy it means that fedi can be intimidating for women when they read the onslaught of general misogyny from a lot of users. if you favour the free speech side of fedi the majority of users appear to be men in the tech field or with interest in tech. I hope to make it more welcoming for women in particular who may find that intimidating.

@Ox @lucy I honestly hope they are not intimidated. In fedi or in tech.

I work in a tech career and find most women in my field to be pretty damned brilliant. Same ratio of brilliance to arrogance as male techs, in fact. :)

I honestly think the days of the tech gap are coming to a close. As older people retire the older attitudes are, as well. Women who came up with tech in the era of companies like Big Blue are tough, smart, mercenary cutthroats but they had to be and I find it respectable.

One of my own greatest mentors and teachers in this industry was a woman and she will have my love and respect for an eternity. If she was 25 or 30 years younger I would have begged her to marry me and she would have laughed her ass off because she was a homosexual.

There should be no recognition of sex in tech. A computer, a network, a device, a CPU, a phone or whatever does not care what plumbing you have or who you want to be with or what god you believe in or whatever. There is only GIGO.

As for the fedi... well. Just have fun with it like Ox does I reckon.