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Because too many people assume that only men were involved in the effort? I'm not sure why a documentary about women would "alienate your audience"...

• pipeline_peak 4y ago
  • Jtsummers 4y ago
    Invoking "wokeism" doesn't help to make your case. If anything it weakens it. Documentaries and books do not need to be total in their coverage, they have limited space (in the literal sense and the temporal sense) in which to convey information. Consider something like this as adding to the larger body of documentation on the history of math and computing and the role of women in both. Because that's what it does, it adds, not subtracts. It doesn't erase anything that existed prior to it or since, it doesn't erase the (very well documented) role of men in these efforts.
    • pipeline_peak 4y ago
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      • PuppyTailWags 4y ago
        > It doesn't erase anything, it just excludes historic contributions to one gender. If a documentary covers a specific topic it makes sense that it wouldn't cover another topic. The Cancer documentary isn't somehow woke for not being about AIDS. I don't see anything weird about a documentary that is about women computing in WWII not being about male computing in WWII. I'd totally agree with you if the documentary was claiming to cover computing in WWII generally and then only covered women, but that's not what's happening here.
        • pipeline_peak 4y ago
          If men didn't serve as human computer contributors to WWII then I agree, it's not an issue.
          • PuppyTailWags 4y ago
            But the documentary doesn't claim to be about human computer contributors. It claims to be about women specifically. It's super weird to critique a historical documentary for being focused in its scope. Should we also critique "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.", a documentary about a specific uprising in a specific extermination camp? Is Wings of Defeat, which is specifically about kamikaze pilots, woke because it's not about all pilots?
          • mixmastamyk 4y ago
            Unfortunately wrong for the whole thread. "Top Secret Rosies is the as-yet-untold story…" https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/122786 https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/122786 Despite being a fan of history and WWII, with female veterans in the family I'd never heard of these folks, ever. Not one peep. Apparently it was secret or something?! Came across the doc on Kanopy at random and it looked like a good one to watch with a young person. If you'd have seen it you'd know it is ~0% woke. All the people interviewed are not even boomers, they're the "greatest generation" simply telling their stories.
            • Apocryphon 4y ago
              This documentary was made in or before 2010, that was even before woke existed as a slang term.