Also, according to women hackers, it's important to increase the visibility of women in tech right now so I think they're doing fine. "Lack of female role models" is the biggest deterrent for women in tech http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/30/the-biggest-deterrent...
At least that's how it has been for me. I can't imagine what it would be like if I stopped every time to take offense to someones irrational beliefs they had about me, and tried to form [insert-group here] to do something about it that has nothing to do with my interest with tinkering.
No I do not have a double blind controlled study on the opinion of black history month, but I thought Freeman's comment was obviously relevant and interesting.
I cited him and not others because this is the clip I had seen and remembered.
That's just as silly as stating Lucy Liu's hypothetical opinion on the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (yes it does exist) [1]:
"Well Lucy Liu has publicly commented on that pretty explicitly".
Unless of course you think Morgan Freeman's opinions count more than Lucy Liu's. But I don't think you do, thankfully.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Pacific_American_Heritage...
I'm not sure what your point is?
Should I have just linked the youtube video without any context?
I think that the existence of a movement called femi-nism is itself an example of systemic sexism. You can't gender the name of your ideology and then claim to fight for equality between genders. What feminists fight for is a furthering of women's rights vis-a-vis men, not equal rights for women and men. Completely different things.
And yes, having a black history month is complicit in deepening racial divides in a society. Just as having a [insert-race-or-ethnicity-here] history month would also do.
The question isn't "are movements like feminism inherently sexist", because they objectively are. The question is whether or not that sexism is justified.