Well this is the worst idea I have heard in a long time.https://twitter.com/GregoryHickok/status/895040776094138368 …
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
Gender differences tell us nothing without the underlying cause - and are too often used to prescribe 'roles' in society.
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
This reads as 'hey why don't we shore up this awful guys views'. I'd rather we didn't.
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
I was taught gender differences stuff at school - and yes I bought into it, and yes thinking girls were bad at maths + coding was harmful
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
Even a lot of *encouragement* that girls/women get is kind of backhanded. Like "Wow, you do SCIENCE? You CODE? With MEN? You go girl!"
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Replying to @berlinbuggirl @DaniRabaiotti
Once upon a time, I thought I wanted to be a programmer, and ugh, I got so sick of people complimenting me for just doing what the guys did.
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Replying to @berlinbuggirl
See I just avoided anything quantitative until my MRes. It's meant I have had a much steeper learning curve.
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
I was lucky to get into coding early, even as a child. I was never particularly good at it, but I can get (basic) stuff done.
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Replying to @berlinbuggirl @DaniRabaiotti
But I saw a lot of girls in high school who'd do this damsel-in-distress routine whenever they were expected to use a computer for anything.
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Replying to @berlinbuggirl @DaniRabaiotti
They weren't stupid (well, most of them weren't), they'd just learned that that was how girls were supposed to act.
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Learned helplessness — really depressing part of the gender role they coerce us into.
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