Apparently choosing a career in technology means giving up any claim to femininity #nosammich

Note: For the purposes of this short blog post, I'm going to conflate gender with sex. Just go with it.

Everyday, conversations like this one probably occur all over America:

A: Does anyone know whose notepad this is?
B: Well it must belong to a girl; this is girly writing.
A: Hey <insert name of female staff member that we are going to call "C"> is this your notepad?
B: It couldn't be hers; it's girly handwriting, not DBA handwriting...
A&B laugh.
C gives them the stinkeye.

PHP Princess: Women in Open Source Web Development by disgruntled_genius

Now, class, can anyone identify the issues with this situation? Here's are a few hints:

1. What exactly is girly writing?
2. This happened at work, and involved adults all over the age of 18. And yet, an unknown, presumably female coworker is referred to as a "girl". But does anyone ever refer to a male coworker as a "boy"? Or would he be a man, a dude, or just one of the guys?
3. For the sake of argument, let us stipulate that handwriting with round, curvy lettering with or without hearts is "girly". And that girly handwriting implies or somehow signifies femininity. Exactly what part of a DBA's job description says "men only"? And what about dealing with a server everyday means that you can't have one or more feminine traits? Or in fact be a woman? Doesn't this sound like a conversation we have had before?

But to answer the original question. No, that wasn't C's notepad. But there is no reason that it couldn't have been.