girls really dont care about coding
By: Matilde P
Tags: Poc, Venting, First Post, Feminism, Teens

and this is coming from a teen girl in the US with all the opportunities in the world.

im an immigrant but like, who cares because i sure don’t.

most people think that i’d be striving to make my parents proud and bust my ass to go to harvard and become a doctor.

no.

first off, i guess i am striving to make my parents proud, but that’s more of a “i thrive on attention and being able to brag about my grades”.

it’s mainly for myself.

second, schools are usually not much more than their name. yeah harvard is an ivy but who cares. NOT I CERTAINLY.

surely i can get the same quality of an education anywhere and maybe for cheaper.

third, i don’t want to be a doctor. twelve years of education, losing my 20’s, and having to deal with sick people and a packed schedule for the rest of my life?

400K a year isn’t enough!

i’ve seen scrubs and i don’t have a single ounce of knowledge about what happened in that hospital but i know that zach braff was HOT back then.

judge me all you want, but i’m a very simple creature.

when i watched the BBC sherlock tv show with benedict cumberbatch, i HATED it. first of all, the episodes had no business being that long. i absorbed absolutely nothing. it’s a clever show and whatever, but the only thing i remember of it was when i saw his butt.

i don’t want to learn to code. i don’t want to be a neuroscientist or the president.

obviously i cant be the president because. immigrant but let’s pretend i’m actively choosing not to be the president.

i was taught python and CSS or CCS, whatever the acronym is. it was part of a program at school where starting in like fourth grade, kids would learn to code, but like watered down code. i know how to make a standard website (it’ll look like garbage, but it IS a website) and can write simple commands in python.

and it was the worst class of my life.

and it wasn’t just me. my whole class hated it. it felt like a waste of time. no one wanted to be typing away at a computer for 50 minutes every tuesday, then get yelled at when they typed something wrong and get frustrated when the little cartoon told them “YOU’RE WRONG. TRY AGAIN.” and literally laughed at them

i want to be a princess and have a pet raccoon.

my friends want to be princesses.

if i could go back to the times of ball gowns and castles but with technology and human rights, I WOULD.

i wanna be a pretty princess and go to balls and waltz with a cute white boy and go to gardens and have so many crowns and dresses.

but i can’t be a pretty princess. so, i’ll settle for getting some career where i can survive on my own, have a cute apartment in new york city (maybe one day i’ll make it to the upper west side) and i’ll find my way.

my dream is to live in a brownstone and be able to afford things made by white people. i want to be rich enough to no longer have to feed into unethical businesses. i’m going to have clothes made by a 21 year old college student named emily who’s working part time and loves her job.

but i won’t get there by coding. maybe i’ll be a writer or a psychologist or maybe do something in business. being a journalist sounds like a dream.

is teaching girls code important? of course. more girls need to go into industries that have been dominated by males for ages.

but some girls just don’t want it. most girls my age are still trying to figure out how to do basic algebra and crushing on boys they see on tik tok. most girls don’t care enough about school and have a poor work ethic. other girls just don’t. care.

we weren’t affected by our years and years of coding. most girls were inspired by their english teachers or science teachers. we just make fun of our old coding teacher.

if i were to ask my two best friends their life goal, one would mention living in a cute cottage and wearing dresses all day and another would mention that she’d like to go into forensic psychology just because she’s watched criminal minds.

if we want to get girls into code, we have to go about it a different way.

but i don’t know that way, i didn’t think too far about this and honestly this is more of a way to vent out frustration.

yes, i’m sick of being looked down on by men and ugly boys in my class. i’m very, very much a feminist and argue with trump supporters who follow me on social media in my free time. for what it’s worth im a person of color. i’m pro-pretty much anything liberals/leftists belive in. but please for the love of god don’t teach me how to code.