[thelastguy]

>How many potentially brilliant female computer scientists are we missing out on as a society because our media and culture barrages them with images of male programmers?

Something very wrong with this. Why do those potentially brilliant computer scientist have to be female? Why can't they be male? Are you saying that males are not as brilliant as females? In fact, why does the gender of those potentially brilliant scientists even matter? As long as those scientists are brilliant, why does their gender matter?