Jerry, no offence taken here - I was in an all-girls college-prep high
school, and the nuns refused to offer typing to the honors-track girls on
the theory that we were not headed for secretarial jobs. My mother, bright
woman that she was, decided that I would need to be able to type my college
term papers, and made me take typing in summer school at the local public
high school. I have been grateful ever since I first sat down to punch a
deck of Hollerith cards! So it was not just a gender-based bias, even back
then! Of course, we did not take Shop class either, so I had to learn to
use tools by helping my Dad with chores. ;-)
Susan Lynch
FW Davison & Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Banker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 4:58 PM
Subject: RE: [U2] blank lines in code / mixed case
I was not trying to offend anyone with that remark but back in the day
typing was something that girls took and boys took shop. It was a fact
not an accusation. Although I think it would have been a great asset for
me today at the time it was hard enough trying to get through all of the
social pressures without creating an additional one of my own making.
Social norms change and today both genders do and should learn how to
type because most of the kids will go into office jobs. Back then most
men were likely to end up tightening a nut and bolt.
Jerry Banker
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 3:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [U2] blank lines in code / mixed case
Along with Robert I also took Typing (along with football, tennis,
soccer)
in High School and am glad I did.
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Houben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [U2] blank lines in code / mixed case
BTW, to the comment about straight guys not taking typing: I know
that
they
didn't usually, but when I was in high school back in the plasticine
epoch
(right after the Pleistocene epoch), a bunch of my friends and I took
typing
because we thought it would be an easy course (and there were girls in
it!)
Given my career, it was one of the most useful courses I took in High
School
- one of the few, in fact, where I can say that I still clearly reap
the
benefits of it every day!
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