2026-04-09 20:22 UTC
@stephaniewalter growing up I was told women don’t make good engineers because they lack spatial reasoning skills.
Anyone who believes this has never tried to sew. Mapping complex 3D shapes onto 2D surfaces, repeatedly inverting topologies, etc, all while aligning weave and patterns. Basic sewing skills that would melt many “engineer’s” brains.
IMO, if it’s “woman’s” work, it’s because men can’t handle it. If it’s “man’s” work, it’s because men felt threatened and excluded women.
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@stephaniewalter@front-end.social 2026-04-10 07:27
@peter Yeah, I blame education and teachers pushing little girls into care, social and arts areas instead of science and math. I always had a strange relationship with math. I am amazing at it. BUT, I hated having to do the proof. Because I sometimes arrived to the result with ways that were not how they taught it. Also, short attention span and shitty memory, I got trauma from having to learn multiplication tables and having to spit it back in front of the whole class.