I use SketchUp in my middle school classroom. The kids are always excited to have a chance to play with it when I introduce it to them. When they open a new project for the first time, I’ve noticed that many of the girls ask (in a very annoyed sort of way) how they can get rid of the guy that appear…

I’d disagree with this. I think visibility plays an important part in career choices. In 15 years of working in offices - I’ve not seen a male in a secretarial position. Perception is a very powerful thing - if having both a male and a female appear at the start of SketchUp helps to get more women i…

At the community college where I work, this is our default SketchUp style: [image] Of course, our students are 17+ years old, so maybe it’s not an issue for them. [ trivia reference ]

It depends on what version of SketchUp you have installed. The free / kids version of SketchUp is currently a guy - that’s where most of this conversation got started. Going forward, SketchUp should include both genders because it’s super easy, might do some good, and doesn’t do anyone any harm.

Tell the girls that a woman @eneroth3 is ranked as Top Developers for the Extension Warehouse… https://s20.postimg.org/l6908diyl/top.png Also, you’ll see that this SketchUp Forum is represented by people like @Caroline who is a woman. I agree that girls need more role models to look up to but in m…

We’ll just need to agree to disagree. Perception is powerful and that is why your job as a teacher is important. If you value your students’ initial misconception of SU as sexist over the demonstrably unsexist history, you do your students a disservice by not taking 1 to 2 minutes explaining it to t…

I’m not agreeing that SketchUp is sexist. But, representation is important - and this is a particularly easy change. I think it’d be particularly empowering for a young girl to know she helped change SketchUp even in a small way. And no, secretaries are not mostly female because of ‘job prospects’.…

Ok so you add two people, one male and one female. This makes one particular middle school class happy. But Hey what about this class over here, you haven’t represented any of them because they are not Caucasian. Or this group over here who are gender neutral, or any of the many other possible non …

Or you coukd also think that pretense sexism is more important than what you teach and give up on sketchup. I bet your students would be happy with Blender’s box. We like our own @Box but this one is human.

[image] JQL: We like our own @Box but this one is human. Is he? We’ve never seen him. This in a non discussion about something that should have been solved in the class room. I haven’ t seen @TonyT around for ages to hear how he/she is using all the explanations and feedback that has been …

[image] Wo3Dan: A file with one randomly picked component at startup could “solve” all problems. Gender, rase, disabled people, components of some animals, furniture. Even some self made favorite components. Wouldn’t that be a surprise. That would be cool, but I like the fact that we get to k…

My middle school students seem to think SketchUp a bit sexist

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My middle school students seem to think SketchUp a bit sexist

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