No need to pinkify – Girls get interested in tech because it is interesting
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Re: No need to pinkify – Girls get interested in tech because it is interesting
#2I don't see the problem in pinking stuff.
If that's the social cue to make tech okay for a large majority of girls, what's the harm. Most people seem to want to be male or female.
The more options the better, I think. We need to increase the amount of women in tech.
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#3I have noticed that some women only tech events tend to go very lightly into technical matters and lean more towards the social justice side of things and I can very easily see just how unappealing such events would be.
Re: No need to pinkify – Girls get interested in tech because it is interesting
#4The irony of the source name here is wonderful.
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#5This reminds my of the most cringeworthy recruitment video I ever saw for a tech company https://youtu.be/CscRkjZ6zDE
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#6Do we know if pinkifying works? I mean, of course as a male I find it hard to support increasing the number of purple headings in the world but presumably people do it because they've had success - right? Just because mature, grown women (who have already been selected for liking the paint tech already has enough to learn about it) aren't motivated by pink and flowery stuff doesn't mean it can't be the weird glitch in young girl's brains that toy corporations have optimized themselves to exploit so well.
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#7I agree with this, girls that like coding aren't usually very interested in girly stuff. I don't think you can lure feminine girls into coding just by pinkifying it. All of this is just demeaning the profession.
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#8"YOU NEED TO TRY HARDER TO APPEAL TO MINORITY GROUPS."
- 2 seconds later -
"STOP USING STEREOTYPES TO APPEAL TO MINORITY GROUPS, IT'S OFFENSIVE."
I mean, I understand the sentiment, but I can also see why many industry professionals begin to think this sort of thing is a catch-22 where smug criticisms will be levied, regardless of conscientiousness.
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#9This makes me wonder, have computers inherently been designed as boy toys? I don't support continuing the teaching that girls should like pink things, dresses and flowers, but it does exist quite strongly. So if we assume boys are thought or predisposed to like esthetic X, while girls are thought or predisposed to like esthetic Y. Have computers been designed to esthetic X?
Basically, my point is, are computers gender neutral in their design? Or are they boyified? If they're boyified, then maybe we do need to alter their design, and work to make them more neutral or have girlified versions.
Note: What would be the boy term for pinkifying?
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#10if this was true then why are there so few?