it's very petty of me but one of the comments on my grant proposal was that critiquing the tendency toward Great Man narratives of computer history is "overdrawn and out of date" and I'm sorry, in a world where people think Elon Musk is smart there is definitely still value in critiquing Great Men narratives imo??
@ingrid wow that sucks in an infuriating way! overdrawn ...compared to what exactly?
@jomc IDK! not sure if they read my critique as being too "no one is talking about this" or something (feel like I did an ok job citing examples of good critical work?) but it felt weird amidst otherwise totally valid points
@ingrid Can't help but imagine a chucklehead rando walking out of a matinee of Hidden Figures seven years ago and thinking, "Great film and... case closed!"
