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17-Year-Old Girl Wins Boston TV API Programming Contest
An anonymous reader writes "Jenny Lamere, a graduating high school senior from Nashua NH, was the youngest of 80 participants (and one of only four women) in the Hill Holiday TVnext hackathon held in Boston this past April, a programming contest sponsored by TV API providers. Her submission of 'Twivo,' an app that allows TV viewers to block spoiler tweets while watching a show and recover them later, won the contest's 'Sync to Broadcast' category (one of five), and was also named the event's 'Best in Show' (overall winner). At least one tech company has expressed interest in her app (a short demo and interview with the judges starts at 3:30 in the embedded YouTube clip). Lamere plans to enter the Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall, and will pursue a career in software development."
Your feminist argument is 'men and women should be equal except women should be superior'.
And how did your amazing critical reading skills reach that conclusion, which has nothing to do with what I said?
You seem to have missed a big part of my argument, which is that *situations change with time,* so *particular things that wouldn't be necessary in the ideal future case of equality might be necessary while reacting to existing inequality.*
Suppose you see a dozen people locked up in chains. You think "in an ideal world, no one would be locked up in chains --- ergo, there would be no need to free anyone from chains". Are you a hypocrite for expending effort to cut through their chains (and even calling on others to help), because you said that in an ideal world no one would need to be freed from chains?