Post A86Div3iGHOOxpb25Q by apLundell@octodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #A86DaFkJyfnyWBOSo4 by apLundell@octodon.social
       2021-06-09T02:55:41Z
       
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       At least three women have been on the cover of "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing".You think it's like James Bond where we're kinda supposed to pretend they're all playing the same character?   Or more like Doctor Who where they explain it in the story?
       
 (DIR) Post #A86Diuazz2QLWmA6KW by technomancy@icosahedron.website
       2021-06-09T03:24:59Z
       
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       @apLundell now you got me really curious about "deep Mavis Beacon lore" which I cannot help but believe must exist and must be extremely out there
       
 (DIR) Post #A86Div3iGHOOxpb25Q by apLundell@octodon.social
       2021-06-09T03:28:37Z
       
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       @technomancy When you find it, I expect it will be excellently typed.
       
 (DIR) Post #A86DivWQXWMSOt1xqK by wistahe@koyu.space
       2021-06-09T05:21:35Z
       
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       @apLundell @technomancy Here's some of the lore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis_Beacon_(character)I guess Mavis Beacon is kind of like the Hatsune Miku of typing.
       
 (DIR) Post #A86DueTNkmtczyCIWu by wistahe@koyu.space
       2021-06-09T05:23:44Z
       
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       @apLundell @technomancy According to Wikipedia:There have been several models chosen to represent the confident efficiency of Mavis Beacon; her image changes to represent a "modern professional typing instructor."So she's more like Batman or the personification of the modern professional typing instructor
       
 (DIR) Post #A87P1l7oiFQ8JKf6Lw by max@smeap.com
       2021-06-09T19:02:57Z
       
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       @wistahe @apLundell @technomancy Isn’t it more of an Uncle Ben or Aunt Jemima situation then in that case?It seems kind of racist that their instinct for “typing teacher” was “Haitian born african american woman”.If you are going to make up a fictional character mascot maybe use an anthropomorphic animal or something?
       
 (DIR) Post #A87WQ92q8A6d7quQHQ by technomancy@icosahedron.website
       2021-06-09T19:07:25Z
       
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       @max @wistahe @apLundell it doesn't come across that way to me, because Mavis Beacon is presented as someone who possesses exemplary skill and is intended to be emulated, and Aunt Jemima is not.but that's my take as someone who's not a member of the group being depicted, and as such is not particularly relevant.
       
 (DIR) Post #A87WQ9RedtxIMoWExU by max@smeap.com
       2021-06-09T19:21:52Z
       
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       @technomancy @wistahe @apLundell I’m thinking of the Hidden Figures thing where the word “computer” originally meant women and primarily POC. The long association of typing skills as the boring (“secretarial”) labor for women and POC. So definitely sexist, borderline on racist?
       
 (DIR) Post #A87WQ9nzIrotU4y4lk by wistahe@koyu.space
       2021-06-09T20:25:47Z
       
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       @max @technomancy @apLundell Never picked up on that until now. Yeah, I can see that though. In US media black women are so rarely portrayed outside of archetypes (and just rarely portrayed in general) that I feel it's almost impossible to have any depiction of them in anything without there being something about society being conveyed. It's a shame because black women are real people, and I think it's true for everybody that they wouldn't want to be seen for something that isn't them. I don't know, any suggestions on how to better approach these things?
       
 (DIR) Post #A87plufm90W43GDLhA by clacke@libranet.de
       2021-06-10T00:01:54Z
       
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       @wistahe @technomancy @apLundell Renée L'Espérance would have appeared in the third edition but was worried about being typecast.I'll show myself out.