It's not sexism either. Age, Gender, and Race are mentioned when they are out of the ordinary for the situation.

You don't read "45 Year old white male banker's makes billions from hedge funds" in the paper. Instead it's just "Banker from Connecticut makes billions from hedge funds". When Kevin Rose was popular with Digg we read "How this KID made millions" they emphasized his young age.

Other examples include: "Black female banker makes billions from hedge funds", "14 year old starts communications company", "Asian to run as vice president", "91 year old saves kittens from burning building.", etc... You mention people's age/gender/race when it's out of the ordinary for what they're doing. Most people have never heard of a black female banker, or a teenager starting a company, or an Asian running for vice president, or a really old person performing the heroic acts that a normally strong young healthy man would.

I've been reading the comments a lot when they have to do with women in tech. What I want to know is: what's up with all you guys who shit yourselves every time a woman is mentioned? Seriously, I feel like half the insecure and bitter "men's rights" group from Reddit migrated here to spread their bitterness and bickering. And I'm seeing more and more of this. Y'all need to chill.

Would love to see if these girls can reach out to their peers in South San Jose or Oakland.

Citation?

It's curiosity based. I'd be interested to know if there are statistics for this.

Right now, young women need to see lots of examples of other women involved in tech more than they need people to pretend techies are just techies

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Also, according to women hackers, it's important to increase the visibility of women in tech right now so I think they're doing fine. "Lack of female role models" is the biggest deterrent for women in tech http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/30/the-biggest-deterrent...

No I do not have a double blind controlled study on the opinion of black history month, but I thought Freeman's comment was obviously relevant and interesting.

I cited him and not others because this is the clip I had seen and remembered.

That's just as silly as stating Lucy Liu's hypothetical opinion on the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (yes it does exist) [1]:

"Well Lucy Liu has publicly commented on that pretty explicitly".

Unless of course you think Morgan Freeman's opinions count more than Lucy Liu's. But I don't think you do, thankfully.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Pacific_American_Heritage...

I'm not sure what your point is?

Should I have just linked the youtube video without any context?

I think that the existence of a movement called femi-nism is itself an example of systemic sexism. You can't gender the name of your ideology and then claim to fight for equality between genders. What feminists fight for is a furthering of women's rights vis-a-vis men, not equal rights for women and men. Completely different things.

And yes, having a black history month is complicit in deepening racial divides in a society. Just as having a [insert-race-or-ethnicity-here] history month would also do.

The question isn't "are movements like feminism inherently sexist", because they objectively are. The question is whether or not that sexism is justified.

At least that's how it has been for me. I can't imagine what it would be like if I stopped every time to take offense to someones irrational beliefs they had about me, and tried to form [insert-group here] to do something about it that has nothing to do with my interest with tinkering.