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Feminism and Programming Languages

posted by Blackmoore on Thursday October 23 2014, @03:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-we-just-use-Esperanto? dept.

bradley13 writes:

Arielle Schlesinger, from HASTAC, is working on her thesis: Feminism and Programming Languages

a feminist programming language is to be built around a non-normative paradigm that represents alternative ways of abstracting. The intent is to encourage and allow new ways of thinking about problems such that we can code using a feminist ideology. ... I realized that object oriented programmed reifies normative subject object theory. This led me to wonder what a feminist programming language would look like, one that might allow you to create entanglements."

Are there any insights to be gained here? Or, is this yet another social theorist questionably applying critical theory to the sciences?

For those who RTFA, be sure to read the comment on the article by Juliet Rosenthal. She brings up the obvious questions that leap to the mind of any computer scientist, and formulates them well without being needlessly confrontational.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 23 2014, @07:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 23 2014, @07:05AM (#109063)

    I just came here to post exactly this. TIMTOWTDI sounds exactly like what she wants.

    But wait, Tim is a male name ... ;-)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 23 2014, @11:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 23 2014, @11:57AM (#109127)

    What? It's pronounced Tim to Die. Reading Tim as a generic abstraction of the every-guy, it becomes a powerful feminist motto while maintaining it's utility as a handy mnemonic.