My fiancee suggested a women and gender studies course be an early requirement for #compsci majors, and I totally agree with her. Guys in my major are so tone-deaf, and they're making women uncomfortable.
It makes more sense than my school requiring me to take a nutrition and exercise course (because I think they think console jockeys are fat)
@ikea_femme It's a good idea, a lot of schools do seem to have some kind of similar course for all freshmen except they can't get away with using the term "gender studies" in a state university because the GOP legislators would explode. It's painful how conservative identity is now explicitly built on opposition to understanding and acceptance of anything other than cishet male superiority...
@gzt true, i forgot how touchy they get about certain words. Didn't Rick Scott outlaw state employees discussing global warming? https://witches.town/media/_OVSPwaJKDOM2LqxWWE
@ikea_femme something like that. Or was it Scott Walker? Probably both. At my university, beyond having that course, they have a basic silly little ocmputer sexual harassment / etc training at some point they have to go through before they graduate. One student got one of those conservative groups to bankroll a lawsuit to get out of it. Utterly stupid. And what for?!
I mentioned this on my other profile, but when I stopped by the computer science club at my school, the club president joked about tits when he found out the women's shirts with the club logo cost more.
Maybe he didn't realize he was being sexist. Maybe he thought women can take those jokes. But imagine dealing with that shit 16 hours a week, for four years, and knowing you need to colab with those jerks on group projects. And a lot of them don't get it's alienating in the first place.