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Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs
theodp writes: Reporting on Google exec Susan Wojcicki's appearance at DreamForce, Inc.'s Tess Townsend writes: "The YouTube CEO said her daughter had stated point-blank that she did not like computers, so Wojcicki enrolled her in a computer camp. The camp made her daughter dislike tech even more. Wojcicki reported her daughter came back saying, 'Everyone in the class was a boy and nobody was like me and now I hate computers even more.' So, mom called the camp and spoke to the CEO, asking that the camp be made more welcoming to girls" (video). Fortune reported last July that it was the urging of Wojcicki and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg that prompted iD Tech Camps — which Wojcicki's and Sandberg's kids had attended — to spin off a girls-only chain of tech camps called Alexa Cafe, which was trialed in the Bay Area in 2014 and expanded to nine locations in 2015. Earlier this month, Fortune noted that Wojcicki's daughter attended the $949-a-week Alexa Cafe summer camp at Palo Alto High, which was coincidentally hosted in the multi-million dollar Media Center (video) that was built thanks to the efforts of Wojcicki's mother Esther (a long-time Paly journalism teacher) and partially furnished and equipped by sister Anne (23andMe CEO) and ex-brother-in-law Sergey Brin's charitable foundation.
It's Hedley
Daddy, daddy, computer camp was so great, we uploaded Justin Bieber videos, we connected to Wifi while riding a pony and I even convinced a really gross dork to fix our computers ! All the girls were just like me, cool, popular, white and totally not poor.
Hey, well let's give segregation an experimental try on Slashdot. A few years back, on April 1st, Slashdot featured a "girlie" motif with pink ponies. Slashdot could revive this again as a parallel site. Then after a few months, we could ask the female users on the parallel site if they like computers better now.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Fair enough. However, I also went to single-sex Catholic high school, but having been more comfortable around boys, the whole business made me four years' worth of miserable.
Agreed on the coddling, though.
Some people don't believe in fairies. I don't believe in The Patriarchy.
Segregation is the answer. Sometimes groups need a space where they can be away from the things that are giving them problems, with the goal of later re-integration.
You heard it here first. Up next, white only bathrooms, and asian only programing camps.
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You play Magic the Gathering too?
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Good thing they're all so stunning and beautiful
And I'm a software engineer!
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Hello butler,
Hello poodle,
Here I am at
Camp by Google.
Camp is very
Highfalutin
Cause it's all-a
'Bout computin'.
"Try to like it",
Mama told me.
If I diss it,
Then she'll scold me.
All the boys are
Banned from coming
Since Mom finds their
Presence dumbing.
Since they do this
Just for funsies,
Makes us look bad --
Hence the shunsies.
This is stupid
I lack interest.
I would rather
Be on Pinterest.
'Stead of sitting,
Making faces,
Can't a boy just
Trade me places?
"Hey, I know we just clipped the far side of the road over there, but you shouldn't be over-steering in the other direction"
"False equivalence, shitlord"
*crash*
She arranged for a class for girls, and with the barriers removed her daughter changed her attitude towards programming.
Perhaps Mommy can arrange a girls-only life for her daughter too so she doesn't have to deal with, you know, stuff.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .