Jules she/her1d ago
This shouldn't still need saying in 2026 but all else being equal women are just as capable of doing anything - coding, understanding maths, running a company, training consistently as an athlete, doing science - as men are and you can't deny that and call yourself a feminist. But you also can't call yourself a feminist if you deny that everything else is not equal and the way society is currently structured women face more barriers to doing these things than men do.
Show threadsecretsloth1d ago

@afewbugs my former neighbor did computer coding on punch cards**, back when it was considered women's work. I dunno who might need to hear this, but it used to be women's work, before men decided oh, wait, no, this gives women too much power and influence to actually make decisions autonomously, and then it became "men's work." This is within living memory! And yet some people deny that women even have the capacity for it. Ridiculous.

**update, she has corrected me, paper tape

Show threadCaz Mockett1d ago
@secretsloth @afewbugs my mum dealt with Hollerith punched cards in her job in the early 1960's. After she had me she hasn't gone near anything computer-related since. I think she believed them somehow 😫
Show threadJules she/her
@cazmockett @secretsloth women believing it makes me saddest of all. There's a sustainability podcast I listen to because they have really interesting guests but the host's "tee hee I'm a silly woman who can't be expected to understand percentages or how heat pumps work!" drives me absolutely crazy.
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Show threadCaz Mockett1d ago
@afewbugs @secretsloth FFS! 🙄
Show threadfak1d ago
@afewbugs @cazmockett @secretsloth I've just started reading Identity Crisis by Ben Elton which references 'a generation when it has been useful for a woman like her to affect a certain lovable dizziness to make their husbands feel clever.' The male ego to be protected due to the power that they have.