Public
- Public
- Network
- Groups
- Featured
- Popular
- People

A watercolour illustration from a Dragon 32 computer sales brochure, showing a male child at the computer keyboard looking at the screen, an adult male looking at the computer screen to the child's right and an adult female positioned in such a way that she cannot see the screen, looking at the child's face.

Download link

A watercolour illustration from a Dragon 32 computer sales brochure, showing a male child at the computer keyboard looking at the screen, an adult male looking at the computer screen to the child's right and an adult female positioned in such a way that she cannot see the screen, looking at the child's face.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/039/906/902/348/303/original/e1492992089131e3.jpg

Notices where this attachment appears

Embed this notice
benklaasen@mastodon.social's status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 13:38:18 JST benklaasen
in reply to

But why, oh why, did the marketing folks behind these mass-market machines have to gender the branding so heavily? Look who's at the keyboard in these photos, who's guiding, who's entirely a passive observer and who's entirely absent.

In conversation Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 13:38:18 JST from gnusocial.jp permalink