‘Mentrification’: how men appropriated computers, beer and the Beatles

zeerust2000 · 2019-05-29T23:06:46+00:00

How to write a feminist article: Construct your own personal interpretation of history, then criticise it for being mens' fault.

tenchineuro · 2019-05-29T22:40:32+00:00

If “gentrification” describes the process by which one “improves” a place so it “conforms to middle-class taste”, mentrification achieves an equal status transformation by taking the history of female participation and achievement, and festooning its narrative with phalluses.

Once you know the female history of computer development, you can’t unsee the giant cock-and-balls scribbled all over it

We’ve all seen forms of mentrification. The resultant Tumblr conversation added beer, writing novels and computers to the list of cultural products whose original association with women was redrawn for audiences of men. Once you know the female history of computer development in particular, you can’t unsee the giant cock-and-balls that’s been scribbled all over it.

Inventor and Hollywood actor Hedy Lamarr found her own contribution to computing – filing for a patent for the technology which underpins wifi, GPS and Bluetooth - erased entirely from public view. “It didn’t fit MGM’s marketing narrative” of a screen star they insisted instead was “the most beautiful woman in the world”.

Misandry is alive and well in modern media, but accuracy is not it's forte. For example, Hedy Lemarr did not invent frequency hopping.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23750/did-hedy-lamarr-and-george-antheil-invent-frequency-hopping-or-spread-spectrum-c

https://feminismisahatemovement.tumblr.com/post/172062239468/did-hedy-lamarr-really-invent-frequency-hopping

mtcapri · 2019-05-29T21:27:30+00:00

Another pejorative beginning with “men-,” invented by feminists—who totally don’t hate men and aren’t sexist against them.

paracog · 2019-05-29T23:56:34+00:00

It just seems to me that a large part of feminism is simply women finding ways to flatter themselves and escape the honor that is due men, in service of selfishness. As they say, "to belittle is to be little."

Sasha_ · 2019-05-29T22:39:57+00:00

I think what she's getting confused about is these bands, shows and products become iconic when the become popular in America. 'Breaking America' has certainly always been the goal of every British band, actor, writer or TV series.

Lion_amongst_gods · 2019-05-30T09:37:37+00:00

Men didn't appropriate them. They invented them (if I'm right).

mtcapri · 2019-05-30T17:03:37+00:00

Can someone help my out? I read the headline and my eyes rolled so hard I can't seem to bring them round again.

PeonSupreme · 2019-05-29T21:57:58+00:00

Gillettification

Zeno1441 · 2019-05-31T03:08:42+00:00

I honestly, unironically love these catchphrases. They're so stupid they become a meme just by existing.

Here's the ones I predict will come out in the next 5 years; mensturbation, menstoring.

Greg_W_Allan · 2019-05-30T05:14:11+00:00

A reply repeated the question, but in regards to the Beatles. When did the group “start to be remembered as rock legends, rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?” Another user answered: “when men decided they liked them”.

This is in my history. The Beatles WERE a basic pop band until the late sixties when they started getting a bit more experimental with their music. THIS was what attracted the male audience. Van Badham can't tolerate the thought that men may sometimes have better taste than women and have a preference for greater depth in their interests.

foxnoxx · 2019-06-03T10:10:25+00:00

Women invented proggramming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
It was typically women's job to be computers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
A lot of women are famous for important programms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)

Just quite recently IT became men's field and computers boys' toy.

Title	‘Mentrification’: how men appropriated computers, beer and the Beatles
Author	mtcapri
Upvotes	31
Comments	27
Date	May 29, 2019 9:24 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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