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   Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 04:40:13 JST Cat Hicks

   Do y'all ever think about how reading is feminized as a skill and writing is masculinized and the difference between what we value re: demonstration of software ability or is this just me

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 04:40:12 JST Cat Hicks

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     "this teen boy dreams in code" yeah but like this teen girl wrote an entire novel for free for her friends....?!

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 04:40:12 JST Cat Hicks

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     I also find this a FASCINATING missing piece of how we talk about generative AI like huge amounts of interacting with most incarnations clearly relies on reading skills but do you hear about that as much as you hear people talk about "prompt engineering"? Lol no.

     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 repeated this.
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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 04:40:12 JST Cat Hicks

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     When you feminize skills that are essential you basically get them on sale. It's very effective weaponization of our social biases against us

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 04:40:13 JST Cat Hicks

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     Less sure about the writing part but very sure about the reading part