Chasing Technology in a Little Black Dress

Was listening to the new 104.8 “women’s only channel” and there was this RJ woman going on (I actually heard this same question being repeated over a period of days while flicking radio channels);

“So, who do you think is better, a man or a woman?”

And I’m thinking - what?, is there some random man we’re to pick out from the universe and compare him to some equally random woman from somewhere else?

Of course, one gets used to hearing English being used in all wrong ways here in Bombay. What’s fair to assume, is that the RJ meant to say is “Who are better; men or women?”

Which leads me to say:

WTHey??

What kind of ridiculous question is that??? What, are we still in the 14th Century here???

Which brings me to the point of this post (yeah, you may have thought there wasn’t one, but I’m not one of those we-write-posts-just-for-the-heck-of-it bloggers, so there) :

Stereotyping bugs me crap out of me.

More specifically, I’m talking about the way people assume that people who spend lots of time online are geeks. Which really, would put me in super-geek status.

Which I’m not.

What I am then? Hmmmm… that’s a toughie.

I think I’m a (peroxide) blonde geek. Yeah, if you had to stereotype me, I think that would be the category I’d fit best in. Though really, that’s not who I am always either.

I have been spending lots of time online though. Last month I started Facebooking - and what a joy that was! In the month that I’ve been on, I’ve connected with 300 people - many of whom are school & college friends I’ve not spoken/connected with for 10 - 15 years!! Ah, what fun!

(yeah, you can see my ny resolution to not photoshop is being kept brilliantly!)

And then two days ago, I started Twittering. Yeah, the king of Indian twitter finally convinced me to take the plunge.

Though I must say, the timing couldn’t have been worse, what with the internet being super slow around the world etcetera etcetera, all I kept getting the first few hours after joining was this page of aliens:

Mercifully, what issues twitter (& the rest of the www) was having seem to be resolved. Have been able to get into the hang of things. Though, truth be told, am not so sold to twittering yet. But it’s been a few hours really since I joined, let me give it a little time.

What I can say with even more conviction than before - is that I love blogging!! Really, maybe you wouldn’t tell it by seeing the rather scarce number of posts on thevoiceinmyhead recently, but it’s true. Social networking, connecting (in any form) does not bring me as much joy as blogging does. The ability to come here and be able to write & connect with people through my writing, that brings me the most joy of all.

But for the record, I’m not giving away my little black dresses. While I may spend a lot of time online, my social life off it is still full as usual. In fact, (weirdly) I’ve also noticed, there are a lot of geeks (& I mean real geeks, the type who should only party online) at the Blue Frog. Seriously, we need to have bouncers like they have in clubs in LA who only let pretty people in.

Fine, so that was so not the correct thing to say. I take it back. Even the geeks ought to be welcomed at cool places in Bbay.

But for heck’s sake - stop stereotyping people.

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A final word before I part:
I am so sure some more brilliant ones who read this post are gonna comment:
(01) She says other people’s English leaves things lacking - but look at x, y, and z in that post!!
(02) She says “don’t stereotype” but calls people geeks a few paras down!
and other similar nasty stuff.

To you lot I say, write a post about how hypocritical I am - and make sure you link to me, my technorati rank is slipping.

Tags: Blonde Geeks, Blue Frog, FaceBook, Geeks, India FM, Little Black Dress, Social Networking, Stereotyping, Technology, Technorati Rank, Twitter