Is Your Computer Gender Sensitive, or Does It Alienate Women?

And now – To those wizards at the National Science Foundation (NSF) who blew $856,000 of your dollars teaching mountain lions to run on a treadmill (Lane Solutions #83) – we present yet another Golden Fleece Award.

They earned it by blowing $364,019 to make computers with “gender sensitive designs.”

These geniuses think fewer women are in computing fields because men design them. So we’ve got to design them so they don’t “alienate women.”

But questions remain. What if your computer is “gender confused”? Does it make you “gender confused”? Does it draw more “gender confused” people into computer fields? Can it be “re-gendered?

What if….Never mind. We’ve taken this too far already.

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