Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed May 4 07:57:31 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 14:23:20 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>
> Are you seriously saying that element of femininity in the 
> grammar are redundant ? I'm so triggered right now ! Stop 
> mainsplaining, shitlord !
>
> We need to acknowledge that there are system of oppression that 
> keep women and people of color out of programming, and that 
> your hetero-patriarchal remarks are the kind of micro 
> aggression that discourage their participation in STEM fields. 
> I mean come on, it's 2016 !
>
> WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS !

I find the whole research question weird. Does it suggest that 
women are too stupid to read code that has curly braces and 
semicolons, or that it hurts the female sense of  aesthetics 
(what ever that might be), or are curly braces a symbol of a 
patriarchal society and are only used by a male dominated 
programming community to show women where their place is? Are 
they secret sexual (and sexist) symbols "{}" and ";".

It seems to me that it's actually the research question that is 
sexist.


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