Ymgve at 16:11, 29 November 2007

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SCENE VERSUS GIRLS

Well I know it is a bit of The Mistress talks now in
Skyhigh, but lately there have been a lot of discus-
sions about the few girls this scene still has.
Of course, it is a story told many times but lately I
read an article, I thought it was in mendip or some-
thing like it, called "girls vs. scene". It seems that
some people in this scene think that it is the lack of
interest from the female side of this world that this
scene does not have many girls. Is it girls versus
scene or really the scene versus girls?

As you know there have been few girls in the scene,
names from the past sound like: BBR,BBL,BBD and TBB
the all-female group The Beautiful Blondes. TBB was
of course also known as a coder in various legenda-
ry groups in the late eighties before joining TMB soft
ware in 1991 and passing away at nineteen in march
1993.
Other names I can give you is Mario, famous graphici-
an SMD (the female part who quit), Australian Deb/
Battery, Andrea of Varsity who quit after the tragic
accident en route to the TCC'93 where she lost con-
trol of the car, causing an accident with two casual-
ties,among them her boyfriend Charlie/Varsity.

Nowadays I count fewer girls than ever, Mav quit the
scene, Rambo came out to be a boy,it has been a long
time since I have seen Black Widow's "Moonlight" and
Kayleigh/Fatum also quit the scene some months be-
fore her brother Nephelim did.
Still Black Widow, Starlight and yours truly are the
only known girls left in the scene, so isn't it time to
see what is going on? Oops, I forgot Angel!

Female interest in computers is rising everywhere,
especially on the net. Problem seems to be that girls
and women do not have the determination to start co
ding for long hours and get advanced, I can remember
no name of any coder on any system after TBB and
BBR, who both died. BBR died of cancer in the summer
of 1993.
But in PC females are growing in number, & it appears
this came out on the Party iv where the female mark
almost reached the 1% mark according to Nastiness,
Inc. Who was there,and this party was mainly pc.

But believe me, it's not a matter of no new girls com-
ming into the scene, it is a matter of new people com
ing into this scene! You must take a rough percentage
and say that about 3 %. (permille) of a scene are fe-
males, that is a nice number. So that means that
about 333 new people have to enter a scene to have
one girl among them. And well,we don't get thousands
of new sceners.
This scene is dying in number even as it is getting one
rebirth after another in quality, except for games.
How many sceners are there now, active and all? Two
thousands? One thousand?
I count four active girls but maybe there are more,
some less known. That would count up to my number.

And why are girls not so interested in computers?
Well, it's a mans world you always hear and the scene
confirms this heavily. I think I can safely speak for
the other girls when I say that we get contacted
only because we are girls. The best known one, Star-
light, used to be voted for mainly because she was a
girl and though I don't know her personally I've seen
she had to be quite good to make up for the votes
and she did a hell of a job doing that.

My friend Cupid wrote me that if I got more contacts,
I would easily rise to the top in the swapper charts,
because I was a girl.
I explained him then, as I will explain you now, that I
would never want to be in the swapper charts. I have
about ten contacts only and can hardly afford new
ones, I am busy with two magazines and leading one
group, Angry (together with Nti), and I am not very
much of a swapper. I work at the same desk as Nti &
that's the reason why I usually have some hot wares
to send. My notes are most of the time pretty long
and friendly so I would not blame those few contacts
I have if they decided to vote for me.
But when I'ld see that I got 75 points or something
from 10 contacts (based on a top-10 swapper chart)
I would think this over again.

What do you think when you contact a girl?"most" (a
weird word when talking about 10) of my contacts
usually write to me about sex, the different varia-
tions and positions and all that comes with it and
though I all but disklike this, it is only typical to see
that with our small number all girls are seen as part
ners for kinky conversation. Now Black Widow is also
known for a small sex chapter in her magazine and I
have had some spicy talks in my column in The Tribune
but beside having a cunt, we are more!
And some people seem to have trouble realising that.

Now many sceners are still in their years of puberty
and if they are not some have a hard time realising
that.
Porn stories are in mags everywhere and the funny
thing I saw twice is that girls are advised to leave
this chapter. Now why that? First of all, porn stories
are about sex and those who believe that only boys
can enjoy sex are boys I would never want to meet,
because they are probably the people my friend :
Steiger once referred to as : "Wham bam thank you
ma'am" dudes in bed.
porn stories in diskmags are most of the time ripped
from x-rated magazines and actually can stimulate
both men and women. Ha,never thought of that? Sad...

It is a fact that the scene does not have many girls
and they might never get more for all you know.
So why take a rather unknowing, or even agressive
stance to the few that are here?we are sceners just
like you boys out there. As my late friend TBB said
some years ago:

Do you need a dick to switch on a c64?

Some rag on girls being incompetent because of the
known ones are mageditors and swappers. Apart from
that these skills are not half as easy as they look
I again want to point at the fact that a small percen
tage only is capable of doing more. Okay,some can do
a little graphics or music, And a few guys only can
crack or code. Why else do we have longer swapper
charts than any other chart?
Everybody has different contacts but not everybody
has different coders
.So can you blame the four of us ? Remember coding
TBB and BBR, remember drawing SMD. Don't remember
me drawing!

People who don't know what they are talking about
should stop writing crap about the girls who would be
against the scene. Girls want to have fun, just like
boys. We have breasts and no beard and still we have
all the fun we want. We can enjoy sex tales and porn
stories just like everybody else. And when somebody
fights against the rude discrimination of gays & col-
oured people while they look down on girls in the
scene they're the stupidest fakes I have ever heard
of.

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If you want to have a say to me for Skyhigh, then do
not hesitate, but write me on this address:

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For swapping, I cannot guarantee a full 100% reply
for I don't have much time with my two real life jobs
and two mags to write for. Until next time!

LOVE FROM THE MISTRESS/ANGRY

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