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.