It is very frustrating, and I don't know what the solution is, but blaming the parents is hogwash. I don't see that at all
Shanghai Bill, I have read a lot of the comments you post on /. and I gotta say that they are very balanced and informative
Okay, regarding this 'blame the parent' piece from Google there is nothing to understand --- What Google is trying to do, and in fact, what TPTB has been trying to do to all of us is to impart a sense of 'powerlessness' so that we, collectively, will have to ask them (aka TPTB) for help, to solve our powerlessness
It's just another brick on the wall, so to speak --- the entire thing is structured, piece by piece, to make us feel useless, make us feel that we essentially can't accomplish anything on our own
You see, first, they blame the "male-dominated society" for 'discouraging' the girls from participating in the tech
Then they set up programs exclusively for girls to 'learn the tech', as if to show us --- the male portion of the society, that they are taking power away from us
And to further gaining ground, they are accusing the parents for failing their girls
It's all part of the psy-ops that they are running against the citizens --- designed specifically to enhance their dominance over us, the people
Shanghai Bill, you have spent quite a lot of years outside of USA, your time away from the US enables you to see things from another perspective
And I, originally from China, came to America as a young refugee, also comes equipped with the ability to analyse the American phenomenon, with both the view of an outsider as well as that of an insider
What I am seeing in America, since my arrival in the early 1970's, is the increasing power of TPTB, and their overbearing dominance over the populace
Right now, as we speak, TPTB's plan is in their final stage --- their aim being turning the American society, a society supposed to be based on freedom and liberty, in to a society in which TPTB will become an essential part, a part in which the society can't exist without
That is why they are doing what they are doing
Unfortunately most of the Americans can't see what's going on
I hope you can see what I am seeing, Shanghai Bill