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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.