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Lynn Conway was an icon rule (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It never matters how skilled or brilliant you are when they don't want you to even exist.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What are you saying? She was assassinated?

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think what the previous person was referring to was stuff like how IBM fired her in 1968 once she told her bosses she wanted to transition. That's despite the fact that she did major industry shaping work there

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Got it, thanks for clarifying!

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

I was also thinking about how Turing was treated. Queer people were foundational to computer science, yet it's still rife with bigots that think people like us don't belong.