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Tailwind CSS, and the death of web craftsmanship (pdx.su)
submitted 1 year ago by Paradox@lemdro.id to c/programming@beehaw.org
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[–] autumn@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i think about this article a lot whenever i hear about tailwind.

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-css

[–] miracleorange@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

... I'm very much not sure how I feel about that article. And I don't mean that in a negative way, it's just very... huh.

[–] Paradox@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting perspective. I've added it to the appendix at the bottom of the article

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

But why is CSS so undervalued when it’s a necessary component of most websites and applications? Heydon Pickering writes that it’s partially due to the femininity of CSS: In my experience, men especially earn kudos for their knowledge of JavaScript or Python, but little from CSS skills. CSS, which makes things look ‘pretty’, is considered feminine (don’t tell that to a peacock).

Uh, what? I've never seen or heard that kind of perspective. And I don't agree with it.

CSS being a feminine language isn’t a bad thing. Quite the contrary, I’d argue that all programming is feminine as it was pioneered by women (who were then pushed out by men).

This argumentation seems pretty pointlessly far off of the topic at hand. Why do you feel the need to categorize programming - and even all of programming - into a gender? That's completely misguided.