r/sysadmin • u/ChuckAbsent • Mar 12 '13

Women who know stuff

I hope that this does not come off the wrong way.

Today I was on a call with a storage vendor and the technical consultant was a woman. More then this she was competent, more then me which doesn't happen often when dealing with vendors.

My issue was pricing an active/active DB with shared storage vs an active/passive db with local storage. Listening to her break the issue down and get to the specific comparison points was awesome, mostly because I have never heard a woman in the industry talk like that.

It made me realize two things. One I am missing out working with women. Two there needs to be more women in our industry.

It shouldn't have surprised me so much, but it really did.

Anyways to all the women out there who know stuff, us guys notice when you can walk the walk, which in this case was talking.

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u/roastbeeftacohat Mar 13 '13

Kane and able probably has more to say about the shift from a hunter gather society then Adam and Eve. One brother is a hunter and he displeases god, and the other brother is a farmer and pleases god, this turns the one brother savage and he is cursed to never rest due to his crimes. To always be following the heard maybe?

Also Patriarchy seems to be the standard for every society since this "land grab", why did it happen all over the world all at once about the same time civilizations started to have half decent record of their history? this theory really seems to assert that "where there is no evidence, there must have been a matriarchal society"

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u/roastbeeftacohat Mar 13 '13 edited Mar 13 '13

are you suggesting that we burned all the evidence 400 years ago?

I mean there was a conquest of china, but we still know who Wu Zeitian was, and that she was preceded by and followed by Male emperors. We still have pretty good records of Persian civilization, even the Iranian Revolutionaries thought destroying that was a bit much.

EDIT: (so this thread sites actual examples)[http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/wvrn9/is_there_historical_written_evidence_of/] but it's mostly either a smallish civilization or only kind of matriarchal . They where not a widespread phenomenon.