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"if you ask Viklund, 37, to conjure up an imaginary computer programmer, he admits that he sees "a big, fat guy with a beard, who might smell"".

he's been watching that scene with Wayne Knight (Newman) in jurassic park too many times.

from the article: Grant Viklund, who is married to board member Sophia Viklund and serves as a volunteer mentor, says PyLadies matters not because its members are women but because getting more people into programming is a good thing overall.

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   Still, if you ask Viklund, 37, to conjure up an imaginary computer 
   programmer, he admits that he sees "a big, fat guy with a beard,
   who might smell" -- the kind of "classic Linux nerd" who might have
   trouble socializing but who loved computers long before geek became chic.
It's strange that someone who actively helps a group that exists to help women be comfortable and draw women into programming trades in such nasty stereotypes of male programmers.