Inside It's So Delightful

[alixtii]

I just was outside doing yardwork, raking the leaves off our back deck . . . in shorts and a t-shirt.

There's something wrong about that.

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[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

True story.

[not-purrrfect.livejournal.com]

Hey, I turned on my A/C today, on Xmas eve of all days. LOL

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[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for this. My freshman eengienring honors program had fewer than a half dozen women, and by the end of the year, only 2. I think that we all suffered as a result of this. As men, we failed to get the chance to see different ways to approach problems, learn different ways of communicating, and to re-think the ways in which we used our knowledge and talents. While the blatant sexism was troubling, perhaps even scarier was our complete unwillingness to question why the demographics of our program looked the way it did, how that might impact our education and our lives, and what we might be able to accomplish if we didn't just accept this framework. This reluctance seemed completely contrary to the rhetoric of innovation that popped up so frequently in our early eengienring classes.Perspectives and questions like the ones in your talk are so important, not just within the FLOSS community, but in our culture as a whole. I'm excited to see the push to transform the way we make software things, however, because it seems like one of the least innovative and transformable spaces when it comes to thinking about how gender mediates the way we live and make. I appreciated that you highlighted examples that show that a different way of making things is not only needed, but possible.