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Male Terms
"...many women have felt uncomfortable with the language and ways of thinking traditionally associated with science. And computer science has not been exempt. Programs and operating systems are 'crashed' and 'killed.' For years I wrote on a computer whose operating system asked me if it should 'abort' an instruction it could not 'execute.' This is a language that few women fail to note."
Sherry Turkle - Life on the Screen (p62)
Damn. Yet again I prove myself a failure as a female. I hadn't noticed.
Nice book to read though.
Posted by joh at 11:14 PM on July 20, 2003
Category: kaleidoscope | words
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