Girls Do It – Therefore it’s Stupid

February 22nd, 2008

Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain – New York Times

…Teasing out why girls are prolific Web content creators usually leads to speculation and generalization. Although girls have outperformed boys in reading and writing for years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, this does not automatically translate into a collective yen to blog or sign up for a MySpace page. Rather, some scholars argue, girls are the dominant online content creators because both sexes are influenced by cultural expectations“Girls are trained to make stories about themselves,” said Pat Gill, the interim director for the Institute for Communications Research and an associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

From a young age they learn that they are objects, Professor Gill said, so they learn how to describe themselves. Historically, girls and women have been expected to be social, communal and skilled in decorative arts.

“This would be called the feminization of the Internet,” she said….

So the main point of this story is apparently that “Yeah, girls may well be the driving force in originality and creativity in the adolescent web community (while boys are busy making videos of themselves humping inanimate objects, beating each other up and masturbating) but that’s only because it’s another way for the girls to preen and conform to society’s expectations.”?

Fuck you.

Yeah… it doesn’t matter what you do, it’s all just because you’re an “object” that needs better marketing. That’s the whole point behind your stupid, fluffy “emotional” web content. The real thing to do is program. If you don’t transition to that— you dumb, useless, math is hard cunt— it totally doesn’t count. You might as well be embroidering a tapestry and studying toward your MRS.