Why It Matters To Think about Gender and Technology

By Cathy Davidson. There's a parody/hoax happening on Bitbucket where a simplistic redaction of feminism conjoined with a lot of fake code is being put up to tempt the naive, I assume, to create a "feminist" programming language that will turn out to be bogus, a la the infamous hoax perpetuated against Lacanian critical theory long ago.  It's a trap, I gather, so that anyone who participates will be revealed to be silly, uninformed, and the whole enterprise fraudulent.  Really? Is that the best one can do with a serious issue that most of the world realizes deserves serious debate?  Personally, I'd avoid any part of this conversation that isn't a respectful engagement. Caveat emptor.   The mudslinging and name calling and reductionism are not what Ari Schlesinger's posts on feminism and programming (either the original or the follow up) are about. More...