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by detcader 13y ago
It's probably not the fault of the "programming world", but rather gender roles in their entirety, where boys and girls are pushed toward certain interests and away from others. Programming is often seen as "geeky"
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by detcader 13y ago
You're obviously a man, but you seem to think yourself the arbiter of what is or is not sexist against women. Why is this?
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by detcader 13y ago
@poorelise - you seem unfamiliar with what DanBC means by "mens rights advocate" -- let me help you: Men’s Rights Activists advocate for ‘human rights’ with rape and death threats - http://feministcurrent.com/7555&
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by detcader 13y ago
@poorelise - I admit that I'm ignorant of modern figures in programming who are women. What I meant with "wave" is that the famous women programmers that are often mentioned/taught about, cluster around a time period whe
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by detcader 13y ago
"Tired of hearing that company X or company Y should hire more females." When did the writer of this article say this? When has anybody said this? Please, I'm very interested.
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by detcader 13y ago
"ostracized by pseudo-masculine efforts undertaken by adolescent males" - I don't see the word "all" in there "militant feminists"? Really? Masculinity is a socially constructed, we can identify [1] mascul
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by detcader 13y ago
Well, with the combined factors of WWII keeping the men busy, and the general conception around that time that "computing" was boring data-entry work -- and so, fit for women -- the fact that those handful of pioneering women (Hop
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by detcader 13y ago
I agree -- kids receive all kinds of messages about how girls and boys should act, from the media, their parents, and their peers, and a lot of it is just plain toxic and manifest in masculinity-affirming posturing and violence. It's e
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by detcader 13y ago
OP was the one calling out condescending people, actually
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by detcader 13y ago
How do you make the determination that the interest is necessarily "natural" when children's minds are so pliable growing up? It's a proven fact that boys and girls are treated differently by their parents and the media,
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by detcader 13y ago
There's a gender imbalance in the programming field. This, to many, is worthy of thought. If you think you really know what's relevant to be discussed on Hacker News, you should shoot pg an email volunteering to moderate, see how
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by detcader 13y ago
Did you read the article?
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by detcader 13y ago
I dunno, programming can be as fun as any other art, and the money is good and secure. And I don't see how this analysis incorporates gender at all -- unless you're saying women are better at decision-making than men, heh
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by detcader 13y ago
"Social construct theory is dead" Are you serious? When did it "die", again?
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by detcader 13y ago
Gender isn't "just a binary label," it's a system of normalized roles, and girls and women, historically and now, were/are steered to roles that involve carework, "womenly" professions, etc. In this system
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by detcader 13y ago
primitivesuave was literally recounting their own experience with young children; are they "sexist", or is describing reality just not to your liking? What does "acting like boys" even mean, may I ask? primitivesuave was
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by detcader 13y ago
What's weird is that people assume that this has to do with programming specifically, instead of the larger workings of gender as a social construction and hierarchy (laid upon the material reality of sex dimorphism). Discussing gender
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by detcader 13y ago
Also, I'm pretty sure I spelled "California" wrong.
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WeatherBug advertises extension by impersonating Chrome permissions dropdown box(weather.weatherbug.com)
2 points by detcader 13y ago|1 comments
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Foxtrot's Bill Amend: I wrote an app(foxtrot.com)
1 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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by detcader 13y ago
"lunches to instagram" "credit cards from daddy" yea I don't think you're a woman
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by detcader 13y ago
Given that you've got some emotional disposition against "feminists" and "liberals" [1], I don't think I'm going to buy your implicit effort to try to represent women. There are plenty of women who believe
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by detcader 13y ago
Except if we actually put this story into context of how the US government does things, we realize that if this technique of spying isn't already being used on US citizens, it soon will be. Drones, wire-tapping, and infectious state-cr
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What do people mean when they say "I'm not surprised by the NSA revelations"?(labels-kill.blogspot.com)
2 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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Remembering Aaron Swartz, Who Passed Away One Year Ago Today(pressfreedomfoundation.org)
2 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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by detcader 13y ago
"It's hard to argue I'm biased against female founders when I have a female cofounder myself." No matter how the rest of the essay is, this honestly doesn't mean jack and insults the intelligence of his critics, no
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Google Bus Protesters’ Manifesto: ‘Get Out of Oakland’(blogs.kqed.org)
46 points by detcader 13y ago|100 comments
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by detcader 13y ago
epistasis was talking about women's experiences and misogyny, sorry that seems to bother you
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by detcader 13y ago
I never finished 1984 but both seem to ignore the ultimate driving force behind both authoritarianism and consumerism that continues to rule the world, money and capitalism. In 1984, or at least this comic, power and violence seems to hap
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by detcader 13y ago
Interesting how the first link doesn't define "gender queer" or "gender fluid". How do you verify the feelings of a person about their gender? I reject gender as a system entirely, does that make me "gender flu

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