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No one is promoting the hacker image, the image is defined by those seen to be the hackers. Who are you suggesting we point to and say look at what this person did to make the image more diverse?


Perhaps someone like this?

http://pando.com/2014/01/02/from-coding-to-the-catwalk-this-...

I'm not really saying we need to promote pizza and staying up all night coding, it's that we need to maybe make it more inclusive, to encourage more people to join the tech party.


This is the point I making, she is hardly famous for being a successful hacker, and that's the problem. If you want more diverse role models they have to achieve something, this whole article is look I am pretty and smart isnt that amazing? If anything it is making things worse.




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