Champagne Supernova

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so it’s absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.

what the failed education

system never did.

Delia Derbyshire over there building a synthesizer from scratch to play the Dr. Who theme on.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

You're one of us You're a part of the night You're one of us Say goodbye to the light

to be clear, I believe younger artists and minors can write good fics (not to say “fanfic must always be good” either because it is a hobby and I still believe that as long as it’s done with love and the artist’s joy, it is good) and I believe it’s good when younger artists and minors start making art at young ages.

that said, a lot of fanfics out there that you read and love are done by adults with kids, jobs and responsibilities. adults who have years, decades of practice under their belts. adults who don’t let life and responsibilities take away their joy in creating.

These types of egregious comments from kids don't upset me anymore because they have no idea what an adult is like. They are familiar with a bunch of adult roles. Kids with creative parents sometimes understand. And not everybody is so lucky.

Also, there's something misogynistic about this take, but it's not their fault. Dads can be passionate about their hobbies, while moms are supposed to take care of everything and maybe they don't have time for anything else, like remembering what they actually like to do. That's my mother's case, for instance.

I don't think that kids want to be sexist, of course. They simply don't know and since they don't know, they don't understand.