Truth time: I really just always wanted to use the word “brouhaha” in a post title. Cross item 487 off life’s todo list.

The IT Screen God­dess cal­en­dar, oh the con­tro­versy, and the proper web site hasn’t even launched! The Aus­tralian IT got an arti­cle in already, appar­ently there was a phone poll on yes­ter­day morning’s Sun­rise show, and of course blog­gers have started talk­ing about it already.

I wrote a post about my views on the glam­our cal­en­dar topic yes­ter­day (I am help­ing out with the web site) and that post is get­ting some com­ments, but it was only yes­ter­day arvo as I was walk­ing through Leed­erville to get to a meet­ing that I realised what my real issue was. I like being a geek. I don’t have a prob­lem with the stereo­type. I don’t think it’s neg­a­tive (maybe the stereo­type I’m think­ing of isn’t the one other peo­ple think of) — geeks are smart peo­ple, and smart is sexy. So it kind of irks me to acknowl­edge that other peo­ple think there’s some­thing wrong with that, and that movie star glam­our is some­how better.

At any rate, I haven’t seen the full cal­en­dar and I do want to see what all the fuss is about for myself. And any­thing that pro­motes dis­cus­sion of women and careers in IT and the web is A Good Thing. Bring it on!