What’s with this new fashion of using feminine names for tech products?
Imagine being a woman, working in an office, and hearing your first name in random contexts. I see how that could become annoying.
Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners
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#12What’s with this new fashion of using feminine names for tech products? Imagine being a woman, working in an office, and hearing your first name in random contexts. I see how that could become annoying.
MariaDB is a fork of MySQL and was introduced in 2009. Is this new?
Other than that, Maria is also a male name although not very common.
~50% of humans are female and if there is a „trend“ for giving female names to software, yes, please do it more.
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#13What’s with this new fashion of using feminine names for tech products? Imagine being a woman, working in an office, and hearing your first name in random contexts. I see how that could become annoying.
MariaDB is a fork of MySQL and was introduced in 2009. Is this new? Other than that, Maria is also a male name although not very common. ~50% of humans are female and if there is a „trend“ for giving female names to software, yes, please do it more.
My point is, I don’t recall seeing any tech product named “John”. We shouldn’t be using first names for random products regardless of gender. People somehow assume that female first names are somehow better suited as names for some software product, than male names.
It’s new in the sense that I keep noticing them more often lately.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
MariaDB is a fork of MySQL and was introduced in 2009. Is this new? Other than that, Maria is also a male name although not very common. ~50% of humans are female and if there is a „trend“ for giving female names to software, yes, please do it more.
My point is, I don’t recall seeing any tech product named “John”. We shouldn’t be using first names for random products regardless of gender. People somehow assume that female first names are somehow better suited as names for some software product, than male names. It’s new in the sense that I keep noticing them more often lately.
Haskell, Erlang, Pascal… Maria is a reference to Maria Montessori, whose educational philosophy inspired Maria.cloud.
Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
My point is, I don’t recall seeing any tech product named “John”. We shouldn’t be using first names for random products regardless of gender. People somehow assume that female first names are somehow better suited as names for some software product, than male names. It’s new in the sense that I keep noticing them more often lately.
Haskell, Erlang, Pascal… Maria is a reference to Maria Montessori, whose educational philosophy inspired Maria.cloud.
> Haskell, Erlang, Pascal
Those are family names, correct me if I’m wrong.
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#16What’s with this new fashion of using feminine names for tech products? Imagine being a woman, working in an office, and hearing your first name in random contexts. I see how that could become annoying.
https://everything2.com/title/People+with+programming+langua...
(Spoiler: It's mostly men.)
AI Personal assistants on the other hand do seem to have feminine names or voices.
Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners
#17What’s with this new fashion of using feminine names for tech products? Imagine being a woman, working in an office, and hearing your first name in random contexts. I see how that could become annoying.
https://everything2.com/title/People+with+programming+langua... (Spoiler: It's mostly men.) AI Personal assistants on the other hand do seem to have feminine names or voices.
Those are last names.
Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
MariaDB is a fork of MySQL and was introduced in 2009. Is this new? Other than that, Maria is also a male name although not very common. ~50% of humans are female and if there is a „trend“ for giving female names to software, yes, please do it more.
My point is, I don’t recall seeing any tech product named “John”. We shouldn’t be using first names for random products regardless of gender. People somehow assume that female first names are somehow better suited as names for some software product, than male names. It’s new in the sense that I keep noticing them more often lately.
John the Ripper!
Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners
#19What’s with this new fashion of using feminine names for tech products? Imagine being a woman, working in an office, and hearing your first name in random contexts. I see how that could become annoying.
I imagine they’d find it no more annoying than do Frank, Bob, Doug or Russell.
In fact I might call my next project Karen. Because things can only get better for her.
Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haskell, Erlang, Pascal… Maria is a reference to Maria Montessori, whose educational philosophy inspired Maria.cloud.
> Haskell, Erlang, Pascal Those are family names, correct me if I’m wrong.
Haskell and Erlang perhaps, but Pascal is both.
But I think the larger point, that male names are only rarely used, stands.