Re: Question to all: Outreach
On 2020/03/18 13:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> You hit a very important aspect of privilege in your mail here that I'm
>> not sure you're fully conscious of. Back in 1989, me and my little
>> buddies were typing BASIC in to a ZX-Spectrum so that we can play new
>> games. It was great and we learned a lot considering we were just 6 and
>> 7 year olds.
>>
>> At the same time, the girls in our street were playing with dolls
>> because you know, boys are supposed to play with Lego and computers and
>> girls are supposed to play with dolls and pink tea sets. At least,
>> that's the rules society systemically imposed on the world. Back then if
>> there were a microcomputer in the house, girls typically got very little
>> time on it.
>
> I was playing with dolls when I was a small kid, that didn't keep me from
> becoming interested in computers. Several female physicists I know probably
> played with dolls as well, yet they are what they are now.
I'm sure that you're smart enough to know that you're completely missing
the point there.
-Jonathan
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