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Rediscovering WWII's Top-Secret Computing 'Rosies'
An anonymous reader writes "Women were recruited to do ballistics calculations and program computers during WWII. Half a century later, their work is only beginning to get recognition."
Some of that recognition is in the form of a documentary film released in 2010 titled Top Secret Rosies.
What I personally find maddening is how most of the younger generation of women say `I'm not a feminist', but have no problem laying claim to the outrageous `rights' championed by even the craziest of the radical fringe.
Fathers have no rights, but still owe child support? Of course, that is part of the natural order of things and anyway, he should have kept it in his pants.
Alimony even though it was the woman who left? The jerk deserves it.
Falsely accused of rape of sexual harassment? Well, he may be innocent at this time, but some man somewhere is harassing a women right now, so this punishment can be a deterrent.
Punish women for false rape claims? That will cause a `chilling effect' for other raped women.
A woman who has a privileged upbringing in an upper middle class suburb in the US still needs to benefit from affirmative action at work? Of course, don't you know that women are subjected to ritual gender mutilation in Africa?
And so on and so forth. The `I'm not a feminist' line is trotted out by women in their 20s & 30s who are still interested in attracting men, because they have the sense to know that there are few men dim enough to cast their lot with a self-professed feminist.