This rocks -- thank you for making it and sharing it with the world! (I think the base concept is FANTASTIC and sadly hilarious.)
I would also be quite interested in the shot-by-shot commentary, especially if you're thinking about submitting that somewhere -- a Hypatia submission seems like a stretch goal, but could turn into something really really cool if it pulls in some of your other work around this topic. If this sounds interesting, we should chat sometime -- I've been wanting to pull together a synthesis of your work because I absolutely want to cite it in the stuff I'm about to move into (diversity-in-tech research that starts from a feminist disability standpoint) and also because there's SO MUCH GOOD THINKING in here.
I do think that watching the clip requires some insider knowledge of sexism in the tech industry -- it's not an introduction that'll open up the minds of someone new to the idea, it's a video for folks who've already taken the red pill and can go "ah yes, I recognize that." This is partially why I'd be interested in the shot-by-shot; that sort of thing may be the translation/unpacking that would make the message easier to see for a larger group of people.
It takes a little while to sink in that the clip is satire/pointing-out-a-negative (yes, despite the meat grinder quote at the start) because smiling faces + upbeat music is so hard-coded to "yay, technical shiny!" in our current tech-recruiting rhetoric -- and it takes some time to pull away from getting sucked into that metanarrative so that I can pay attention to "ah yes, yes, this is a critique."
Curious about the Jurassic Park reference -- is Lex supposed to be an example of a talented young girl recruited by the tech industry? Or is the "and we're about to get eaten by velociraptors" reference also supposed to point to the meatgrinder? (Or... in general, that clip seemed weird-to-interpret to me, yet not out of place.)
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I would also be quite interested in the shot-by-shot commentary, especially if you're thinking about submitting that somewhere -- a Hypatia submission seems like a stretch goal, but could turn into something really really cool if it pulls in some of your other work around this topic. If this sounds interesting, we should chat sometime -- I've been wanting to pull together a synthesis of your work because I absolutely want to cite it in the stuff I'm about to move into (diversity-in-tech research that starts from a feminist disability standpoint) and also because there's SO MUCH GOOD THINKING in here.
I do think that watching the clip requires some insider knowledge of sexism in the tech industry -- it's not an introduction that'll open up the minds of someone new to the idea, it's a video for folks who've already taken the red pill and can go "ah yes, I recognize that." This is partially why I'd be interested in the shot-by-shot; that sort of thing may be the translation/unpacking that would make the message easier to see for a larger group of people.
It takes a little while to sink in that the clip is satire/pointing-out-a-negative (yes, despite the meat grinder quote at the start) because smiling faces + upbeat music is so hard-coded to "yay, technical shiny!" in our current tech-recruiting rhetoric -- and it takes some time to pull away from getting sucked into that metanarrative so that I can pay attention to "ah yes, yes, this is a critique."
Curious about the Jurassic Park reference -- is Lex supposed to be an example of a talented young girl recruited by the tech industry? Or is the "and we're about to get eaten by velociraptors" reference also supposed to point to the meatgrinder? (Or... in general, that clip seemed weird-to-interpret to me, yet not out of place.)