Reminds me of these couple of really telling moments in Robert Cringley's "Triumph of the nerds" where he goes from reciting damaging stereotypes about women in tech to almost immediately interviewing or referencing women in tech.
E.g. this moment, where he's saying "this is boy stuff!" and then the 30 seconds later he's interviewing Christine Comaford, CEO of Corporate Computing International, who is talking about relational database design... but first he has to ask Douglas Adams for his two cents? As if he's more qualified...
Or this sequence, where he basically spends a lot of time on the "Men love coding because women are illogical!" nonsense, then shows footage of women programming the ENIAC, and then cites Grace Hopper's invention of COBOL!
Some rather wild mental gymnastics must have been going on in the minds of every man involved in that documentary. Somehow it manages to reference so many moments when women were instrumental, crucial contributors to the history of computing, and yet rewrites history so as to erase women's place in it then and now 😡
AND STILL, as made evident in the comments on YouTube, computer science lecturers are still recommending this documentary to cohorts of budding programmers! As if it isn't feeding them a harmful script right from the beginning of their careers!
Infuriating.