Someone wrote in [personal profile] alixtii 2012-12-21 02:13 pm (UTC)

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I mentioned this in chnneal and was asked to leave it as a comment somewhere, so I'm doing that.I do Support on DW. I do it because I love it, because I'm good at it, because it's something that makes sense in my bones. I don't code, and though I'm confident that if I really set my mind to it I'd get tons of help from the DW babydev community, I don't really want to learn. I'm happy in Support.I'm sure I'm just reading too much into this, but it feels like I'm a Traitor to the Revolution because I like doing what is considered a traditionally female gendered activity. I feel like I'm doing something wrong, and betraying my fellow woman because the thing that I love and am passionate about is something that doesn't go against any perceived gender roles. I think it's fantastic and amazing that women are neck-deep in coding on DW and AO3, but I feel sort of like a second class citizen because I'm not doing The Important Work. I'm just doing Support, y'know? In that sense, I'm still a substandard volunteer, just now I'm worth less than someone who is my own gender as opposed to being worth less than a man. How is that progress?

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