Geeks name favorite geeks: all guys, no girls

Who are the most favoritest geeks of geeks themselves? The geek dating site Geek 2 Geek took a survey, and the winners are:

1. Bill Gates
2. Stephen Hawking
3. Steve Jobs
4. Albert Einstein
5. Linus Torvalds
6. Kevin Mitnick
7. Kevin Smith
8. Kevin Rose
9. Leo Laporte
10. Joss Whedon

Not a girl among them.

Perhaps, as Deanna Zandt commented recently on the Guardian blog Comment Is Free, “digital culture is still biased against women.” Perhaps, as Annalee Newitz noted recently on AlterNet, it’s the result of “dickish biology or dickish culture that creates a problem like Slashdot,” where a link to an article of hers prompted not “a lively debate about technology and social justice, [but] a popular thread in the ‘comments’ area about whether [she] was too fat to be considered attractive.” Perhaps, as alicetiara at the “feminism and technology” blog Tiara.org suggests, we all need to:

speak out against sexist or homophobic comments whenever we see them on any tech-related site. They may get modded down (unlikely, if they’re half-way articulate or include a particularly hilarious anti-Micro$oft/pro-Linux joke), they may get ignored, but if the diversity of the readership becomes reflected in the diversity of the participants, eventually sexism will be considered unacceptable on the site. Even if it’s just for being tacky or off-topic.

And perhaps the fact that Deanna and Annalee and alicetiara are already making some noise means we’re on our way to making some future most-favorite-geeks list.