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School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees
theodp writes This holiday season, Google and the National Parks partnered to let girls program the White House Christmas tree lights. While the initiative earned kudos in Fast Company's 9 Giant Leaps For Women In Science and Technology In 2014, it also prompted an act of civil disobedience of sorts from St. Augustine of Canterbury School, which decided Google and the U.S. government wouldn't determine which of their kids would be allowed to participate in the coding event. "We decided to open it up to all our students, both boys and girls so that they could be a part of such an historic event, and have it be the kickoff to our Hour of Code week," explained Debra Knox, a technology teacher at St. Augustine.
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"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
We've tried the patriarchy and it's not really working all that well, quite poorly in fact. Perhaps trying out a matriarchy wouldn't be all that bad. The Mosuo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... seems quite interesting and likely would be far more socially balanced.
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You know that VAWA covers men, right?
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That seriously took me less than 15 seconds to find.
It is a fairly well known problem that men and minorities are underrepresented in the teaching profession, particularly in the lower grades. If you were paying any attention at all to the teaching community, you would know that teacher education programs are trying to recruit and retain more men. A quick Google search to get you started...
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No, it's definitely teachers actively screwing boys. They're literally being graded worse just for being boys.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
This is true, in general and abstractly.
But in this case, the predominance of one gender in all STEM fields does indeed demonstrate that something is actually broken and needs fixing.
Nature, science, and common sense show that while consensus provides great short-term efficiency, diversity is universally superior to monoculture in the long term. This is as true in the marketplace of ideas and the STEM fields as it is in the jungle or on the farm.
There does indeed exist a systemic cultural bias pushing women out of technical fields. It exists as a thousand little things, none of which is individually morally incorrect, none of which ought be banned, all of which can be rationalized, all of which ought be examined thoughtfully. Correcting this bias requires not zeroing the bias -- highly unlikely and in fact not at all effective -- but a proactive encouragement toward diversity. To see this demonstrated mathematically, see: http://ncase.me/polygons/
Care to list girls dominated STEM fields?
Women are a majority of Bachelor's degree earners in Psychology (by far), Social Sciences, and Biology. They are close to even in Math and Statistics (45.9%), behind in Physical Sciences, Geo-Sciences, and really behind in Engineering (20.5%) and Computer Science (25.1%).
Overall though, across all Science and Engineering fields, women are 50.4% of Bachelor's degree holders.
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I agree, but that sure as hell doesn't give them the right to be sexist, and disallow certain people from participating based solely on their gender.
Fortunately they didn't. I read TFA and about the scheme they were participating in, and as far as I can tell it never excluded boys at all. The school didn't have to fight to get them in, they just went to the web site and followed the tutorial material.
The scheme was aimed at girls, sure. It never excluded boys though, they were free to participate as they in fact did at this school. The outrage and sexism angle seems to be entirely manufactured by people who either didn't RTFA or just like to rant and feel victimized.
It's the same with efforts to get more women to apply for tech jobs. People just assume that it means excluding men or favouring women even if they are inferior candidates. It doesn't. It just means making an effort to get more to apply in the first place, and then picking the best person for the job regardless of gender.
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By trying to exclude the boys from the team, Google and the Democrats are telling the world that it is okay to discriminate against the boys
Discrimination is nothing new for the Democrats. When its not about color or sex, its about class. Always defining a divide. Always pitting groups against each other.
"His name was James Damore."
If you genuinely think this then you haven't been paying attention. The primary point of feminism has been historically to put men and women on equal footing and give them equal opportunities. The fields in question, computer science, are actually a case in point: the percentage of females in computer related fields actually used to be higher. It actually dropped with the rise of the personal computer which was advertised as a thing for young boys. See http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding and it still hasn't gotten to the point it was in the 1980s. And when skilled people, of any gender, aren't going to the fields where their skills can be most useful, we all suffer.
Yes, there are some radical feminists who have some very bad ideas or end goals, but that's going to occur in any political movement. Paying attention to outliers is not helpful. If someone had said in 1970 that the movement for racial equality's primary objective was to sabotage white people that would be the exact same sort of thing, and it would have the exact same things wrong with it.