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How would you explain it to your grandmother? is such a terrible question to ask regarding tech. I work daily in my office with actual, real-live grandmothers who actively develop software with IBM and RedHat. Please kill this ageist and sexist assumption. It is actively harmful and factually incorrect.

Possible alternates could be: layman's terms, plain English, simplify it for me... [more inside]
posted by jillithd on Oct 29, 2018 - 77 comments

Could we stop already with the premise that simply mastered technology can be described as "easy enough for your mom/grandma/female relative"? This was the latest offender; it's probably less offensive than most but straw+camel's back = this post. [more inside]
posted by humph on Sep 10, 2015 - 232 comments

How is this thread anything but an invitation to perpetuate ageist stereotypes? [more inside]
posted by Wordwoman on Sep 17, 2010 - 4 comments