kwayk42 @kwayk42@sechtor.social
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This post is disgusting, claiming gender discrimination when the real issue is that people didn't like the use of AI in a brand that used to stand for DIYers everywhere

It's not DIY if you have AI do it for you.......

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Betty Crocker Cake Mix advertisement, circa 1950s. Headline: Betty Crocker Cake Mixes bring you that Special Homemade Goodness... because YOU add the eggs yourself. The original mix worked fine with just water but flopped because women felt guilty about it being too easy. Psychologist Ernest Dichter figured out the fix: remove the powdered egg, make her crack a fresh one, and suddenly it's baking instead of cheating. The first product redesigned specifically to manage the laziness accusation. The egg did nothing. The guilt did everything.

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Attached: 3 images No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part. https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/

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