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Re: Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

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I guess I am questioning what the point of asking for gender is, to begin with. Not sure I get the whole identify as a boy in this context.

Well apparently the whole product is aimed at a specific gender (girls) so asking what gender users identify as doesn't seem entirely out of scope?

I am not sure exactly what gender identity rule I have broken for asking my original question but I find it pretty interesting whether those who identify as a girl also are girls biologically but identify as boys or whether they are biologically born boys.

The reasons I asked was because it was claimed that many of those who use it identify as boys.

Maybe I am alone in thinking this is an important distinction but none the less I find it pretty relevant to what to make out of it in the grander scheme of this discussion.

Re: Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

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I guess I am questioning what the point of asking for gender is, to begin with. Not sure I get the whole identify as a boy in this context.

Did they say they asked? I thought that comment just indicated that they had noticed. And since you are the person who brought up the concept of identifying as a boy in this context, I don't think anyone else can tell you why it might have seemed relevant.

"We have lots of users that identify as male."

this was the comment I was referring to.

Re: Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

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I disagree. "When Nyla got Jewelbots for her birthday she gave the second one to Wenhao, a girl in her class." "Nyla and Wenhao's Jewelbots light up blue when they are together (Blue is Wenhao's favorite color)" "They make a secret language just for their Jewelbots. Sending one buzz means "look behind you!"." "Using the power of STEM, Nyla and her friends make games and custom friend animations by writing code and up…

" Step 2 To begin coding your Jewelbot, you will need to download the Arduino IDE. "

Yeah good luck with that. Most people struggle (not just little girls) already struggle to install software where you literally have to click "continue" 3 times...
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