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Ah, today was very interesting. I changed the computers over from my sister's to my mothers. Funny thing, my mom was going to switch to my dad's computer, but it didn't have a USB port, and my computer is the only one with one. Which is great, because I had this conversation with her about switching computers over and convinced her to use mine. Then today she went to switch it over to my dad's and treated me like a complete moron when I reminded her that we had discussed this. So it's nice that I got the last laugh on that one. But that's not all. She tried to get my sister to switch it over to the USB, and I invoked my rule about no one touching my computer hardware but me. Especially since my sister is about 3 steps from being completely computer illiterate, and I don't like her to boot. So they got upset and my mom kept pleading with me, but I told her it's my rule, and they left the house. After they left, it took me all of 10 minutes to set the whole thing up: 8 minutes to move my computer and the components, 1.5 minutes to realize that the USB didn't come with drivers, 25 seconds to realize it can run on an ethernet connection, and 5 seconds to plug the sucker in to the ethernet port.
So anyway, they come back home and start to freak out because they didn't know I had an ethernet card. (Please. My mom came with me when I got it installed three and a half years ago? How else would I have had internet at the dorms??) Anyway, I guess they took my "no one touches the computer but me" rule as everything on the computer, not just the hardware (ignoring of course the part where I say "no one messes with the hardware" part), so they went out and got a "guy they knew" to get them an ethernet card. Well, seeing my computer all set up and after hearing my clarification 5 times, they called the "guy" and told him not to bother. And they had the nerve to be mad at me because I took control of the no-computer situation. Sigh. But this leads me to my biggest gripe of all which has to do with gender bias:
Why is it that when "some guy" works on your computer, it's ok, but when a daughter, a girl who is actually invested in the idea of providing a good machine for your use, works on it, she is a moron? I mean, this is not the first time this has happened to me. I have tried to help out people with computer issues before, and told rather bluntly that they'd rather have a guy do it instead. My father could do anything he wanted to the computers and my mom would just sit blandly by. In fact, when I would suggest something as a solution to a problem, my mom would check with my dad (who was less computer literate than I) first to make sure it would be ok. It doesn't end there either. Last year, I was hooking up my new DVD player to my roomate's TV and noticed that there was nothing for the wires (silly Daewoo tvs), which made me confused for 5 minutes until I figured out that a converter of some kind would be required. But my roomate wanted me to wait until our male neighbor came and saw it and could tell us what to do. Well, I ignored her, called a friend, got his agreement that it would need a converter, went to Best Buy and had the DVD player hooked up that night (or the next one). But all my roomate could say later was "You should have waited for L." Turns out L. didn't even work with electronics, he just had some sound equipment for his music. Cause that would have been so much help to me.
I just gotta ask: when it comes to fixing electronic issues, when will a girl who knows her electronics one day outrank a guy who can't even set the clock on a VCR? When will women stop getting treated like morons when it comes to computers? I really would like to know.
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