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There's nothing wrong with doing a research project to figure out what a gendered/feminist programming language would be like if it were to exist.

Perhaps a little nugget of wisdom might fall out like how men and women tend to navigate differently [1].

[1] http://searchengineland.com/human-hardware-men-women-and-how...

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Hmm - what about researching how would be a programming language for black people? For lesbians? Does that makes you comfortable?

That's perfectly all right - you can have things specifically for only women, black people or lesbians. In fact you should have those and you'd better support them. Failing to support those kind of movements means your company probably isn't moral.

Of course, a programming language created specifically for white males would be both racist and sexist.

True. I'd also moot a programming language for left-handed people. What the heck, a programming language for left-handed people who had a difficult childhood. Or a goth period during their teenager years. Or who are Scottish nationalists.

Maybe it's me, maybe it's PCness gone full circle, but to encourage division doesn't seem the way forwards to me.

The differences in cognitive styles between men and women, both when it comes to sex and gender, are actually quite interesting as an area of research.

Just because they're being addressed from the angle of feminism and their focus on how many cultural artifacts reflect male dominance in subtle ways doesn't make it any less valid to me.

https://xkcd.com/624/

Lingua::Romana::Perligata is gendered. I don't see how it is feminist.

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