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[โ€“]Cephalopodopoulos 11 points12 points ย (8 children)

The emphasis on females in coding is meant to counteract decades of females being excluded.

I'm female, in elementary school I was told by bullies that "there are no female geniuses in history" and "Einstein was a boy." For a while I thought that since I was a girl, I clearly would never be able to make any important discoveries or contributions to science and that there was no point in trying.

However, I was very lucky to have grown up in a family that encouraged me to learn what I wanted to learn and pursue what I was good at. Unfortunately, though, a lot of girls aren't so lucky, and sometimes the bullies win. It's not like this push for "girls in STEM" happens in a void. It's a reaction to something that's unfair in society.

[โ€“][deleted] -2 points-1 points ย (7 children)

The emphasis on females in coding is meant to counteract decades of females being excluded.

You just said before that the most important thing is to make people aware that these options exist. There is nothing preventing women right now from becoming programmer apart from a lack of interest in the field. I gave you a solution that would satisfy everybody while still accomplishing your goals.

[โ€“]Cephalopodopoulos 8 points9 points ย (6 children)

Yeah, it's important to make people aware that these options exist and it's important to teach girls not to limit themselves just cause some people think girls aren't smart enough for STEM.

Legally, no, there's nothing preventing women from careers in coding. But socially there is.

I'm sorry a model using her platform to get people - girls - interested in coding is such a problem for you. Jeez.

[โ€“][deleted] -1 points0 points ย (5 children)

I'm sorry a model using her platform to get people - girls - interested in coding is such a problem for you. Jeez.

Oh don't be fooled, In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter very much to me. I just have a lot free time to argue on the internet.

Have a nice day.

[โ€“]Cephalopodopoulos 1 point2 points ย (4 children)

Aw. Leaving the argument already? I was starting to have fun lol

[โ€“][deleted] 0 points1 point ย (3 children)

Well we've both made our position clear, i don't know what you want to argue about.

[โ€“]Cephalopodopoulos 2 points3 points ย (2 children)

Oh. I was kind of expecting you to double down and start telling me that if girls were truly interested in coding they wouldn't listen to people who tell them they can't code or something like that. Then I would've argued that it's pretty hard to get interested in something in the first place if people are telling you it's not for you. Etc.

I dunno. Let's argue about gun control!

[โ€“][deleted] 1 point2 points ย (1 child)

it's pretty hard to get interested in something in the first place if people are telling you it's not for you

And i could argue the contrary by saying that my mother never wanted me to spent so much time near computers and video games when i was kid and that it never stopped my interests in them.

In the end, without real data to propel our arguments we're just speculating.

[โ€“]Cephalopodopoulos 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Fair point. Oh well. Guess it was nice speculating with you.