Female Nerd Myth Busting: Female Nerds Are Not Ugly!

In the comments of my post of Annalee Newitz's talk on the Revenge of the Female Nerds, my friend Anina pointed me her interview on nerdtv.

I met and live blogged Anina at Blogher.  This female nerd doesn't wear glasses and is not ugly.  Anina represents the new European tradition in mobile Internet development. And you'd never guess her day job.

I loved the interview - especially the "Lies to Tell the Phone Company" bit.  It made me wonder why there weren't more female nerds on the nerdtv guest list? 

Macintosh OS programmer Andy Hertzfeld (9/6)
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin (9/13)
Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy (9/20)
Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle (9/27)
Internet publisher Tim O'Reilly (10/4)
Father of RSS Dave Winer (10/11)
Autodesk co-founder Dan Drake (10/19)
Intel Capital co-founder Avram Miller (10/28)
Anina High Fashion Meets High Tech (11/9)
Spreadsheet inventor Dan Bricklin
Computer mouse inventor Doug Engelbart
Former Lotus chief scientist Jerry Kaplan
Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak
Former Apple chief scientist Larry Tesler
Google CEO Eric Schmidt
The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds
TCP/IP inventor Bob Kahn
Guest list is subject to change

It does say "guest list subject to change."  Maybe we need to email Robert x.Cringley and suggest some other female nerds to be interviewed? Certainly there are lots of to choose from in the Blogher Speaker Wiki.

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Comments

[Ruby Sinreich]

And what's up with the one woman talking about "fashion?" Ew!

I'd be glad to volunteer if anyone needs a good-looking SheNerd for high-profile speaking engagements... ;-)

[j macam]

does sumbody really have to look like a geek. when they are talented or good with computer? because lately i observed i was too busy to dress up. that i started to look like one.. lol.