On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 14:23:20 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
Are you seriously saying that element of femininity in the
grammar are redundant ? I'm so triggered right now ! Stop
mainsplaining, shitlord !
We need to acknowledge that there are system of oppression that
keep women and people of color out of programming, and that
your hetero-patriarchal remarks are the kind of micro
aggression that discourage their participation in STEM fields.
I mean come on, it's 2016 !
WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS !
I find the whole research question weird. Does it suggest that
women are too stupid to read code that has curly braces and
semicolons, or that it hurts the female sense of aesthetics
(what ever that might be), or are curly braces a symbol of a
patriarchal society and are only used by a male dominated
programming community to show women where their place is? Are
they secret sexual (and sexist) symbols "{}" and ";".
It seems to me that it's actually the research question that is
sexist.
