Typecasting

  Simple thought.
  People assume, incorrectly, that if you understand technical arcania, you can't understand other things.
  So they only want to hear what you have to say about the tech stuff.
  People even say "Dave stick to tech." Which means "I can't think of any other way to respond to what you just said." To which I push my glasses down my nose and look over the top of them, right at you and tell you to fuck off. :-)
  I pride myself on being able to understand anything I need to understand. So I feel my opinions on things other than the web and math and programming, are just as well-developed as my ideas on technological issues. I've spent 56 years, so far, thinking about it all. Learning and asking questions, and keeping an open mind.
  Unfortunately, I've always had to overcome other peoples' assumptions.
  Same goes for age, gender and race. In theory, you don't get to sing the blues with soul if you're a middle-aged, white male. That's bogus!
  As Ringo Starr (a middle-aged white male) once sang: You gotta pay your dues if you want to sing the blues.
  Heh. I think I've paid some dues.
  Just sayin.