Pink Code

I'm coding-girl today, and I painted my nails pink in honor of it. But as I sat down to code, it made me wonder: I think I've done this in the past. And that made me realize that, among the women theorists and/or computational scientists I know (a very small number, too small!) , we all do it. It's as though, by this little thing, the ritualistic donning of pink polish, we are claiming our task, somehow saying "I'm a woman in a man's game, and you're going to remember that I can play it any way I want." Being a coder, being a computer geek, being a theorist, doesn't make me unfeminine, so I remind myself once in awhile by being pink.