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

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/04/2016 10:23 AM, deadalnix wrote:
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> We need to acknowledge that there are system of oppression that keep
> women and people of color out of programming,

Hard to tell for certain, but you ARE being sarcastic/joking about this, 
right?

It's touchy, because I've come across people who actually do genuinely 
believe the field has things in place deliberately to exclude 
women/ethnicities...even though...those VERY SAME people have never once 
been able to provide a SINGLE CONCRETE EXAMPLE of any of these alleged 
mechanisms they believe so strongly to exist. Not only that, but I've 
yet to come across an anti-minority or anti-female programmer, and even 
if such creatures exist, they're undeniably var too much in the minority 
to have any real large-scale effect on "keeping people out". The vast 
majority that I've seen are far more likely to *dislike* the field's 
current gender imbalance.

In much the same way programming is predominantly male (or "a goddamn 
sausage-fest" as I see it), nursing is predominantly female. So why did 
none of US pursue careers in nursing? Was it because we hit roadblocks 
with systems in place within the nursing field designed to exclude 
males? Or was it because we just plain weren't interested and had the 
freedom to choose a field we DID have interest in instead?

Systems DO undeniably exist, for this very field, that are very plainly 
and deliberately sexist or racist though...but just not in the way some 
people believe. Unlike the others, I CAN provide a real concrete 
verifiable example: There are a lot of Computer Science grants and 
scholarships for students that list "female" or "non-caucasian" (or some 
specific non-caucasian race) as a mandatory requirement. I came across a 
bunch of those when I was trying to get financial aid for college. But 
there are NONE that require "male" or "caucasian" - it would never be 
permitted anyway, they'd get completely torn to shreds (and for good 
reason). The only ONE I did hear of was only a publicity stunt to point 
out the hypocrisy of all the sexist anti-male grants/scholarships.

Verifiable fact: My sister paid considerably less than I did for each 
year of college even though we came from EXACTLY the same economic 
background, exactly the same city/town, exactly the same ethnicity, 
nearly the same age (and yet she's slightly younger, so if anything, 
increasing tuition rates would have worked AGAINST her), and one of our 
respective colleges was even the exact same school. And her pay now is 
(considerably) higher than mine, and she works in a field that's known 
to pay LESS than my field.

Anti-female systems in place? Bull fucking shit. Anyone who claims there 
are: put up REAL fucking examples instead of parroting vacuous rhetoric 
or shut the fuck up forever.

I've had far more than enough of the mother fucking baby-goddamn-boomers 
and GI-generation dragging THEIR bullshit war-of-the-sexes out the the 
goddamn 1950's where it belongs and forcing it onto MY 1980's+ 
generation. I literally grew up subjected to a constant barrage of 
"*GIRLS* can do/be ANYTHING they want", never a goddamn word about guys 
except to constantly villanize us and demand that we're always the 
enemy, even though *3* motherfucking decades separated me from all YOUR 
historic sexist crap, so, boomers, goddamn GI's, and the younger idiots 
they've infected with their "this is still 1950, and we must war against 
the oppressive males" propaganda, hurry up and die so we can finally be 
rid of YOUR legacy and the sexism you create and maintain. Fuck the 
pendulum, just stop the goddamn thing right in the middle already. 
People are morons.