Mastodawn

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.

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secretsloth 1d 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

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Caz Mockett 1d 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 😫

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@cazmockett @secretsloth @afewbugs My father once had to keep everybody behind after work to try to find out where 6d had got lost in the accounting system.

It turned out that one of the data entry people had been eating chocolate, and had dribbled some onto a card blocking a hole. New rule introduced: no eating chocolate whilst operating a card punch.