#you're a pickme NLOG

[frances-kafka]

I notice that women and men in AI art, are two different demographics. It's largely the men getting the job offers, but... IMO, part of that is because the men are actually more normie passing and more conventionally employable. Women in AI art seem to be old, trans, disabled, or sex workers. Women in the peak employable demographics are not getting AI jobs - and they're not even in the AI community. Just as they've never been in many of the spaces I've been in until that thing goes relatively mainstream.

I have long felt that there is some kind of social taboo against women being early adopters, and the thing is, I don't even think this taboo has existed for my entire life. It starts to really show up in the 80s when PCs are being marketed specifically to families with boys.

I am going to generalize that in normie gender culture, which has swallowed up nerd culture and all the spaces that gender-non-conforming women used to have, women aren't allowed to do a thing or be a fan of a thing until large numbers of women agree that it's Safe and Morally Unobjectionable. The praxis of right wing women and left wing women here is exactly the same, using different words.

It has to have some kind of modern cultural equivalent of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Must be declared Godly or Non-Problematic. Must be what your friends are passing around.

You are only allowed to engage with content that's broadly approved of. Nothing intellectually challenging or creatively edgy.

There must be some kind of "Women in Tech" initiative broadly saying It's Okay Now. It must be coupled with stock photography and Photo Day at Megacorp showing HOW it's okay and for WHOM. Women techies have to be product mommies and not autistic hacker girls, and it's largely women enforcing this.

It's Mad Men sexism with a different gender policing it, and with diversity initiatives

Until you get over your early adopter taboo, you will get left behind in every industry by men

And also while you're getting over your early adopter taboo, get over the whole idea of NLOGs and PickMes even being a thing, because absolutely you would consider any female early adopter both of these things if you're the kind of sexist who can't imagine women doing things that don't have the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval