Except, of course, I don't make threats - I don't use insults, I don't say things I wouldn't say to your face. I go anonymous because of my job considerations - I can lose my job for posting during the day - so to suggest that you find my posts similar to this Kathy Sierra nonsense would only convince me of your state of self-realization - and having blogged with you before, I'd say that's a distant and small state indeed. By the way, is LeCastor your real name? I doubt it. I've never - since my first Compuserve, days, MANY years ago, attacked someone like Kathy Sierra was attacked, though I've been threatened with death many times (and I retaliate pretty well, I'd say) - people don't like my brand of the truth - it hurts because of its painful reality - thus, we get the Europa's who freak out, or the LeCastor's level typical (and packaged) insults - he's racist/sexist/xenophobic and so on and so forth - without ever really addressing the issues - whatever, most people are intellectually weak and can only run on the surface.

Some of us go a little deeper...

It's been my experience that unmarried men spend much of their time chasing women, usually unsuccessfully.

If you're not married why are you wasting so much time posting on the intertubes instead of out chasing all those fish that you claim are in the sea?

Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.

Thanks :)

Love your meltdowns and rants as well. Like I said... always funny!

P.S. - hope you're in class for spelling... nick's Europa, not Eurpoa

Please stop bashing all the geek boys, a lot of them are great people. I've never felt that the field was dominated by sexist pigs. It more that since women are underrepresented in the industry a woman will more likely experience multiple instances of harassment. If there were a lot more women, the harassment gets spread around. I also have found that as the ratio of men vs women balances out the men seem to be more aware of what they are saying and tend to tone it down. I think with only one or two women in a group the men forget that they are in mixed company and say stuff that otherwise they wouldn't. That's not to deny that the tech industry is free from it's fair share of male idiots. At one job I was the only woman on my team and I had to deal with sexual comments and inappropriate touching. The men that did those things were not confused or autistic. They were well aware of our sexual harassment policy and it was absolutely clear that grabbing your coworker's ass was crossing the line. The more loner types that I worked with never would have considered doing any such thing. Hell some of them would barely look me in the eye; they weren't coming anywhere near my hiney. I've also worked in a sales environment and in the political arena with what are supposed to be "people persons." And several of those guys were jerks and made a game of cornering the new office intern in the copy room. I guess you could say they were more social in their harassment style as they liked to work in teams as opposed to the tech guy that liked to go solo on the ass grabbing. Assholes are assholes all the world around.

On a side note, we might get into heated discussions here at Salon, but I've never seen anyone threaten another person or post anything close to what I saw on the Rageboy and Sierra sites. We can be harsh on each other, but I've never seen it taken that level of foulness.

...who can probably barely make eye contact with the female sex in real life. The only reason men like you hate woman is because they know they have no chance with any of them and it's pretty obvious that one of us did a serious number on you at some point. It's apparent that you've been screwed over by one of us in the past which is why you're so bitter and angry and quite obviously...lonely.

Look man, if I was as emotionally hideous (and probably physically too judging from your demeanor)as you are, I would probably want a group of people to take my aggression out on too. Maybe if you got a pet or something you wouldn't be so miserable. :)

and I would ignore you, for the same reason that marriage is overrated. Too many fish in the sea to chose from. Those games are so high school. Only works on men who haven't been laid in years or who think every time they get a blowjob it's christmas.

Men are so easily controlled and manipulated it's hilarious. All I have to do to get a man to do what I want is smile, it's pathetic.

Not every man is so easy to control. It's amazing how many truly beautiful women I have seen in thrall to some jerk or other.

Agreed though that most men are a sucker for a pretty woman.

Women are no more or less "brave" than are men.

My mother drove a double decker London bus through the Blitz, dodging bomb craters and listening to Buzz Bombs and V2s going off all around her.

She also wouldn't go to the bomb shelter in the Tube station at night. She said that if the Jerrys were going to kill her, they were going to do it in her own bed.

My daughter was pregnant and living on base at Camp Pendleton while my son in law was in the Marines. They had a paper route to help make ends meet since they already had one child. One morning before daylight, my daughter was out delivering papers and saw a man running toward her in the darkness. The guy came really close to my daughter and she ended up decking him and breaking his nose with a single punch. Turns out the guy was a Recon Marine (like special forces) out on his morning run. She felt immediately sorry for the guy and was telling him so.. All he wanted was for her not to tell anyone that a pregnant woman took him out with a single punch.. :)

There's an old adage about if you are ever captured *don't* let them give you to the women. You'd be better off biting your own tongue off and drowning in your own blood.