Comments on: Women Invent Things Too – Google Fixes “she invented”

By: pool heaters

pool heaters — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:22:39 +0000

Whoops, the link at the end of my comment didn’t work properly. It should have said .

By: Sven

Sven — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:48:33 +0000

well I disagree that u don't need us…..if there werent us, men….human race would be extinct….so u need us as much we need u….we make a baby, u give a birth to it….so we role a same part in this big story called life

By: maddog

maddog — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:42:46 +0000

what is so useful about a disposable cell phone?

By: stoo

stoo — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:33:30 +0000

it isn't sexist
im surprised none of you figured this out
to google he and she are just words nothing more and men have invented more things because women weren't allowed to
therefore the phrase he invented has higher numbers in the results than she so google is designed to look at facts and take initiative and give the most likely question
google is a program and doesnt know about equality

By: Himanshu Pant

Himanshu Pant — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:35:10 +0000

i completely agree to what u saying see if you go to history there are several major inventions by women lets take the biggest example of Madam Curie, This debate is on women due to some technicality or a bug which Google has fixed now. so lets take it in a easy manner and lets just not take it as a matter of sexism.

By: Ryan Turner

Ryan Turner — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:16:10 +0000

i don't take it personally at all. But thought I may be young, I think what I said still is true. Maybe a litte revison or adding on is in order though. Women contribute. Men contribute. In different ways. That's not to say they cannot do each others' (i don't want to say jobs but…) jobs. I'm thinking like a football team has linemen and secondary (receivers, backs, etc.) now then, a tight end can play either a lineman or a receiver. and in some formations a back. My views. And it goes both ways.

By: Himanshu

Himanshu — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:23:20 +0000

i think you have a point here… you are correct. had you been a bit older you could have thought but i can understand a 16 year chap cannot think beyond what you are saying. so practically i agree with you and things are invented accidentally. but if you check the history and facts you'll find the truth. and anyway one lil advise to you don't take it personally.

By: Ryan Turner

Ryan Turner — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:04:30 +0000

Maybe his mom was calling him up to dinner from her basement and he was in a hurry?
Hmmm i'm not gonna judge on that one.

By: Brandon M. Sergent

Brandon M. Sergent — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:49:33 +0000

You misunderstand completely. I have the utmost respect for supportive figures in history. All I'm saying is that those services aren't typically written down, and thus Google won't see them, or put another way, in terms of history, if it didn't get written down we have no idea that it happened.

I did not mean to suggest that women did not participate in history I meant to say that they were not given credit in historical account due to past sexism.

Given the interconnected nature of society I'm quite sure that you could say "if it weren't for woman/women X would never have been invented." What i meant by footnote is the sexist men writing the history books down played or omitted entirely the contributions of women, thus rendering the record itself sexist, and thus Google was giving us "just the facts ma'am."

That being said I will reiterate, that men are more likely to invent, given the structure of our society and typical gender role pressure, regardless of female capability.

By: Brandon M. Sergent

Brandon M. Sergent — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:39:12 +0000

God, you aren't kidding.

I couldn't even decipher what that guy was talking about. But I could tell it was completely not what i was talking about.