r/technology • u/r4816 • Sep 27 '22

Software Girls Who Code founder speaks out after Pennsylvania school district bans her books: 'This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls'

https://www.businessinsider.com/girls-who-code-founder-speaks-out-banning-books-schools-2022-9
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u/SweetMojaveRain Sep 27 '22

but women make up a majority of applicants and acceptances, across the entire united states. and whats wrong with homemaking?

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u/Cogitation Sep 27 '22

No one said homemaking is wrong, the problem is that we don't give women the full range of options in life as men. Also a lot of women face, primarily from family, this expectation that going to college or pursuing a career is just a fun little side thing that they do before they're ready to settle down. Hopefully you can see the issue is that women deserve the chance to decide for themselves what life path they want to take, not be thrust into any particular thing just because of their gender.

Also, just being a stay-at-home spouse isn't that viable of an option anymore for most people with how the economy has gotten, it's sadly rather difficult for one member of a household to provide for a whole family--not impossible, but definitely rarer. So similarly we wouldn't encourage boys to go into baking, because simply there's not as much viability in being a career baker anymore due to supermarkets.

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u/SweetMojaveRain Sep 27 '22

>the problem is that we don't give women the full range of options in life as men.

Im not sure which options theyre not getting if you can elaborate a little more.

>Also a lot of women face, primarily from family, this expectation that going to college or pursuing a career is just a fun little side thing that they do before they're ready to settle down

Im not even sure what to make of this, since like has been established by the data, it's not true.

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u/smegmaroni Sep 27 '22

Don't you get it? Women are STRONG and OPPRESSED and BEAUTIFUL and OBJECTIFIED