I have nicknamed her "JoanieDearest", because of her rants and how they evoke that biography of actress Joan Crawford written by her daughter, "Mommie Dearest". She has some characteristic quirks, including perpetual rants about the depravity of Microsoft and the harassment that she claimed she had received there, gender tribalism and attacks on both men and feminists (the latter because they are not Real Women), the appearance of technical knowledge without any real substance, conspiracy theories, misspellings, and an annoying tendency to quote others' articles in full without any trimming or line-by-line commentary. Her gender tribalism has manifested itself in her charge that mainstream computer interfaces were made with men in mind, and not women; though I have challenged her to describe her ideal interface, she has not taken it up, despite attempts to titillate her with promises of fame and fortune. She has also accused her female critics of not being Real Women, even when they (and many of her male critics, like myself) are strong critics of Microsoft. She once mentioned such things as out-of-order execution of computer instructions, and I suggested that her low-level debugging skills could be in great demand; but she was not interested. I have suggested to her that she try to make some money off of her sob stories by making a media celebrity out of herself, but she did not take me up on that offer. She likes to hang out in the newsgroup alt.fan.bill-gates, where many of her rants have appeared.
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