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> It doesn't erase anything, it just excludes historic contributions to one gender. If a documentary covers a specific topic it makes sense that it wouldn't c

> It doesn't erase anything, it just excludes historic contributions to one gender. If a documentary covers a specific topic it makes sense that it wouldn't cover another topic. The Cancer documentary isn't somehow woke for not being about AIDS. I don't see anything weird about a documentary that is about women computing in WWII not being about male computing in WWII. I'd totally agree with you if the documentary was claiming to cover computing in WWII generally and then only covered women, but that's not what's happening here.

pipeline_peak 4y ago
If men didn't serve as human computer contributors to WWII then I agree, it's not an issue.
- PuppyTailWags 4y ago
  But the documentary doesn't claim to be about human computer contributors. It claims to be about women specifically. It's super weird to critique a historical documentary for being focused in its scope. Should we also critique "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.", a documentary about a specific uprising in a specific extermination camp? Is Wings of Defeat, which is specifically about kamikaze pilots, woke because it's not about all pilots?
- mixmastamyk 4y ago
  Unfortunately wrong for the whole thread. "Top Secret Rosies is the as-yet-untold story…" https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/122786 https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/122786 Despite being a fan of history and WWII, with female veterans in the family I'd never heard of these folks, ever. Not one peep. Apparently it was secret or something?! Came across the doc on Kanopy at random and it looked like a good one to watch with a young person. If you'd have seen it you'd know it is ~0% woke. All the people interviewed are not even boomers, they're the "greatest generation" simply telling their stories.
  - Apocryphon 4y ago
    This documentary was made in or before 2010, that was even before woke existed as a slang term.

pipeline_peak 4y ago

If men didn't serve as human computer contributors to WWII then I agree, it's not an issue.

PuppyTailWags 4y ago
But the documentary doesn't claim to be about human computer contributors. It claims to be about women specifically. It's super weird to critique a historical documentary for being focused in its scope. Should we also critique "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.", a documentary about a specific uprising in a specific extermination camp? Is Wings of Defeat, which is specifically about kamikaze pilots, woke because it's not about all pilots?
mixmastamyk 4y ago
Unfortunately wrong for the whole thread. "Top Secret Rosies is the as-yet-untold story…" https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/122786 https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/122786 Despite being a fan of history and WWII, with female veterans in the family I'd never heard of these folks, ever. Not one peep. Apparently it was secret or something?! Came across the doc on Kanopy at random and it looked like a good one to watch with a young person. If you'd have seen it you'd know it is ~0% woke. All the people interviewed are not even boomers, they're the "greatest generation" simply telling their stories.
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  This documentary was made in or before 2010, that was even before woke existed as a slang term.