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> We believe that the history of the Lena image clashes with the extensive efforts to promote women undertaking higher education in science and engineering Thi

> We believe that the history of the Lena image clashes with the extensive efforts to promote women undertaking higher education in science and engineering This sounds pretty easy to understand to me, and like the main reason for the decision.

fvdessen 2y ago
One has to wonder how effective is that strategy given that the adult industry seems to have a much easier time recruiting women than tech
- mort96 2y ago
  Rather effective? There are still issues to work out but the gender balance is much better these days than back when, say, it was considered cool to use porn as the standard test image in the whole field of digital images
  - fvdessen 2y ago
    Data shows the exact opposite is true. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-declining-female-share-of-computer-science-degrees-from-28-to-18/ https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-declinin...
    - mort96 2y ago
      The first thing when I open that link is a report on "Why Socialism Fails". I'm not gonna trust that as a non-biased source. Show me a peer-reviewed study rather than a blog post please.
- _urvc 2y ago
  That's an interesting thought. In high school I met many girls that were actually interested in informatics but had a hard time keeping up and thus did not pursue a career in tech. The women who did end up studying with me were either: * extreme gamers * close to parent with interest in tech (me) * mocked by males as too stupid to learn informatics * generally adventurous and did not care about appearance * highly ambitious/great work ethics In general, all did have a good amount of self confidence. Maybe it is just easier to end up in the adult industry if you are taught from an early age you are an sex object rather a human being with interests. This might sound extreme but I met males that pretended to treat me as a friend but never thought of me as a human. It is then freaking scary to be all alone in a course with them and without backup like other women.
- remram 2y ago
  Is that true?
friend_and_foe 2y ago
Does it? The words are grammatically correct. But the reasoning doesn't make sense. A pretty, successful woman takes a photo, women are somehow belittled because her career choice is sexualizing in nature? Different from theirs? I don't see any sense in the decision or reasoning, though I do acknowledge that the sentence can be read and made sense of.

fvdessen 2y ago

One has to wonder how effective is that strategy given that the adult industry seems to have a much easier time recruiting women than tech

mort96 2y ago
Rather effective? There are still issues to work out but the gender balance is much better these days than back when, say, it was considered cool to use porn as the standard test image in the whole field of digital images
- fvdessen 2y ago
  Data shows the exact opposite is true. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-declining-female-share-of-computer-science-degrees-from-28-to-18/ https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-declinin...
  - mort96 2y ago
    The first thing when I open that link is a report on "Why Socialism Fails". I'm not gonna trust that as a non-biased source. Show me a peer-reviewed study rather than a blog post please.
_urvc 2y ago
That's an interesting thought. In high school I met many girls that were actually interested in informatics but had a hard time keeping up and thus did not pursue a career in tech. The women who did end up studying with me were either: * extreme gamers * close to parent with interest in tech (me) * mocked by males as too stupid to learn informatics * generally adventurous and did not care about appearance * highly ambitious/great work ethics In general, all did have a good amount of self confidence. Maybe it is just easier to end up in the adult industry if you are taught from an early age you are an sex object rather a human being with interests. This might sound extreme but I met males that pretended to treat me as a friend but never thought of me as a human. It is then freaking scary to be all alone in a course with them and without backup like other women.
remram 2y ago
Is that true?

friend_and_foe 2y ago

Does it? The words are grammatically correct. But the reasoning doesn't make sense. A pretty, successful woman takes a photo, women are somehow belittled because her career choice is sexualizing in nature? Different from theirs? I don't see any sense in the decision or reasoning, though I do acknowledge that the sentence can be read and made sense of.