on 10/24/02 1:24 AM, Sellam Ismail at foo_at_siconic.com wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 classiccmp_at_crash.com wrote:
>
>> I've been reading Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer lately.
>> He's got a reprint of the photo from a TRS-80 Model I ad where a guy is
>> using it on the kitchen table, copying some thing down on a pad and
>> looking vaguely crazed with a cup of coffee. A woman stands in the
>> background behind the kitchen counter, findling a bowl of snacks or
>> fruit and gazing fondly at the gent in the foreground - as if proud the
>> her man is finally able to purchase an use a microcomputer. Page 171.
>
> I can't remember if it was that ad or an Apple ][ ad (I think it was the
> Apple ][ ad) that caused a storm of Feminist backlash (because it depicted
> the woman working in the kitchen while the manly man husband computed
> away) and so in the next ad they made it more palatable to the female
> gendered.
The women who found that offensive should actually be honored. There are
thousands of good programmers in the world, but how many good cooks do we
have left?
--
Owen Robertson
Received on Thu Oct 24 2002 - 01:45:00 BST