Right…I’m sorry, are you assuming I’m arguing against getting girls into technology or something?
Was it because I said, “my kids”, and you assumed that “kids” were boys by default, because as we all know, humans’ default setting is “boy”?
Yeah, my kids aren’t boys.
More likely, it’s a response to my flip response to the terse copy and the pic of the girls gathered around the box. I get a little antsy when I see the, “see, it’s for girls!” angle, because I’ve seen so much stuff targeted at getting girls into STEM and so much of it is so fucking awful. Having said that, it looks like I’ve completely misjudged the situation, so…sorry. with a caveat. Having looked at the actual Piper website, it looks pretty cool, but probably not worth $300. especially since it’s apparently a box of parts with no instruction manual. My kids (who, again, are not boys) would probably like the Kano Kit a lot better. They like keyboards and trackpads. If there’s something that’s inherently better about the Piper kit, well, that should be in the copy that’s trying to get me to buy it from the BoingBoing store.
