A reasonable person isn't going to say that the asymptotic complexity of merge sort is more masculine than feminine. If the goal is to learn whether programmin

A reasonable person isn't going to say that the asymptotic complexity of merge sort is more masculine than feminine. If the goal is to learn whether programming associated with gender, it's unbiased. If the goal is to learn whether the definition of programming is associated with gender, it's biased. The usual goal of NLP is to learn language and (waves hands) meaning. The current tools do this by learning associations, but that's the method, not the goal. The critique is on the methods. The critiques are saying that it's led to trouble, which we'll have to correct for. We want to make it unbiased in the definition based sense, where programming is totally unrelated to gender.