> Remember asking a girl for help to understand integrals.
Why does this surprise you? Why do you think a girl couldn't teach you anything about integrals?
So. Fucking. Sexist.
Why does this surprise you? Why do you think a girl couldn't teach you anything about integrals?
So. Fucking. Sexist.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11538946 and marked it off-topic.
I think he used it as an example to show that the cultural distinction in his school between the genders when it came to math weren't enormous. Had there been a clear culture of math as an all-boys-no-girls subject, that exchange (were he as a boy asked a girl for help) would never have happened.
It is an example used to convey that it wasn't common for boys to think a girl couldn't teach you anything about integrals.
Unless you think girls are worse at maths, then this is a null-story. Shall I tell you a story about how as a child I saw that the sky is blue?
> If it surprises anyone that a boy can ask a girl for help with maths, then that person is a sexist
I think everyone here agrees with you. My understanding of the original post's point was:
"I asked a girl for help in math and it was nothing special; Just like asking anyone who is good at math for help regardless of gender because we weren't socialized to view girls as somehow inferior here
Safe to assume troll.
Whether you think is sexist or not, you can't deny that sciences, maths, and computer science are male dominated. By the end of high school years that can be clearly seen as well. At least I saw it. And my claim was that I saw it more in US than in an Easter European country.