Comment on Anti-acknowlegements

drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Nikophos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If a man told you he worked with computers, it’d be odd to raise an eyebrow respond “Are you some kind of computer boy?”. The technician treated this woman’s work as something special because she was a woman. In other words: A man that works with a computer is still just a man. A woman that works with a computer must be something special, a computer girl.

  And bonus points for calling her a girl, which is just a little bit more infantilizing.

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• xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m not sure of the timeframe of this, but it could be referring to the time when calculations were done by women by hand: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Computers

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  • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    could be referring to “mad men” era secretaries as ibm era computers were just better fancier word processors/typewriters

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s still big brain though

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    • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They were paid basically minimum wage, so they weren’t treated the best. They were doing important work, and I personally have a lot of respect for it, but it was (and still is) an uphill battle against sexism.

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      • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh I’m sure they were treated unfairly. Just stating that I got big respect for those pioneers.

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