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Home » Blog Bidness » Girls Hate Defense Tech

Girls Hate Defense Tech

So the results from last week’s demo­graphic sur­vey are in. Thanks to all you guys — 1,351, in a lit­tle more than 24 hours — who filled it out.
DT_gender.JPGAnd I don’t mean “guys,” fig­u­ra­tively. A full 97.8% of Defense Tech read­ers are male, it turns out. Rich males: half had fam­ily incomes over $75,000 a year. A lit­tle more than 40% were part of the larger “mil­i­tary com­mu­nity,” split fairly evenly between active duty troops, vet­er­ans, and defense con­trac­tors.
Hopefully, this will give the ad sales team enough to work with. What this all says to me: More pin-​​ups. And more dick jokes.

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  1. Noah Shachtman says:
    March 24, 2006 at 1:37 pm

    TH (an actual *woman*) writes: “Rich males: half had fam­ily incomes over $75,000 a year. Hmmm. Maybe I should post a per­sonal ad on the blog to see I can get a date.”

    Reply
  2. max says:
    March 24, 2006 at 3:33 pm

    Where are you folks from that $75k a year is rich?!?!
    It gets me a stu­dio in Manhattan!

    Reply
  3. Noah Shachtman says:
    March 24, 2006 at 3:51 pm

    Scott: I love it! Maybe “DefenseTechRolePlayingGames”?? Besides, isn’t “DefenseTechMuscleCars” just Popular Mechanics mag­a­zine?
    Max: I live in Manhattan, too. So my rent is also crazy. But the median house­hold income in this coun­try is $44,389. So we’re all rolling in it, com­par­itvely speak­ing.
    Thank you, men.
    nms

    Reply
  4. Byron Skinner says:
    March 24, 2006 at 5:42 pm

    Good Afternoon Folks,
    It’s not income nor gen­der of the peo­ple post­ing on this site, it is the incred­i­ble knowl­edge base that responds to the posts. It should be no sur­prise that peo­ple regard­less of gen­der who have this level of exper­tise in a sub­ject mat­ter such as Defense Tech. would be mak­ing a decent liv­ing.
    The very sad thing is that pol­icy mak­ers don’t pay more atten­tion to what is being said here, they do read us faith­fuly. If they were pay­ing atten­tion last Fall when the IBM sell­ing out to Levono was tak­ing place they could have avoided the pit­falls of that give away away of American Technology.
    In the com­ming weeks this will deve­l­ope into a major National Security story. Defense Tech. has earned the “We told you so.” award on this. The Media was totally asleep while IBM sold the “Crown Jewels for 30 Pieces of Silver”.
    ALLONS,
    Byron Skinner

    Reply
  5. AF says:
    March 24, 2006 at 11:21 pm

    How many women in all? I know there was at least one, because I remem­ber tak­ing the sur­vey.
    And Scott — I think your sec­ond idea was most accu­rate — mus­cle cars would get me to drop this from my book­marks, lol!!
    Mr Shachtman, keep up the good work and every­one else — please carry on as you were before, the site is great.

    Reply
  6. Brian says:
    March 25, 2006 at 12:59 am

    DefenseTechRolePlayingGamesAndFootball​.com should work. If talk­ing about F-​​22 Raptors doesn’t scare the women away, you could go on about your 3rd level elf and whether Gandalf would have traded Terrel Owens to the Cowboys. Could Rumsfeld stare down Barry Switzer? The Army screwed up big­time in the occu­pa­tion by not send­ing in the Boz on a heli­copter with a magic sword.
    Watch the women flee.

    Reply
  7. pedestrian says:
    March 25, 2006 at 8:28 am

    Any guesses who are the hot 2.2% girls? ;)

    Reply
  8. Carmen Grayson says:
    March 25, 2006 at 10:19 am

    Bloody ‘ell. I missed the poll. I could have dri­ven the bar one notch up the distaff side. And pos­si­bly delayed a run of dick jokes and pin-​​ups.

    Reply
  9. Ben says:
    March 25, 2006 at 5:15 pm

    I thought this was hilar­i­ous, but Mr. Shachtman I think you should do a new poll:
    How many women love men who read Defense Tech?
    Open the flood gates!!!!!! :)

    Reply
  10. Janiz98 says:
    March 26, 2006 at 2:21 pm

    Well then… I guess this is what 5 years of attend­ing schools with > 85% male pop­u­la­tion gets a girl…
    To quote Triumph the Insult Comic Dog… I have my pick of the lit­ter of a pop­u­la­tion of geeky men who have no idea of what to do with a woman (grin).

    Reply
  11. Chris says:
    March 26, 2006 at 10:57 pm

    > 85% male pop­u­la­tion eh
    You must be an engineer!

    Reply
  12. reefdiver says:
    March 27, 2006 at 10:15 am

    What? Defense Tech can’t pick up babes?

    Reply
  13. Janiz98 says:
    March 28, 2006 at 2:36 pm

    Chris…
    Just went to mil­i­tary school and then USAFA:)
    But sadly, yes, I am in an engi­neer­ing job…

    Reply

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