Many New Yorkers complain about the murkiness of modern dating rules, but the issue is particularly dicey in the tech scene, which feels morally tormented by its gender imbalance. Between panels everywhere from South By Southwest (“Has The Glass Ceiling Ever Smacked You In The Butt?”) to the White House (with Valerie Jarrett), countless stories in the tech press (“Not Enough Women In Tech? Stop Blaming the Men,” “Tech Really Is A Man’s Man’s Man’s World”), and awareness campaigns like Change the Ratio, handwringing is endemic. “Nothing seems to irritate nerds more than the idea that they’re oppressing people,” one techie mused recently on a forum discussion about women in tech. “It probably has something to do with the fact that so many of them were picked on growing up.”

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