Learn to code with maids as classmates; Now in Japan
In Tokyo there is the school MadeInMaidFamily that offers courses where you learn together with cute maids as classmates.
Their current offer is a beginner course in Unity for VR/AR in C#, the fee is 3000 yen.
The idea behind it is that the maids will motivate the students that lack the motivation to learn it by themselves.
They also see it as a benefit for the maids which will learn those coding skills that might be used in a later career, since being a maid often isn't viable after the mid-20s.
Sources:
MadeInMaidFamily (in Japanese)
rocketnews24
nerdiertides
As a developer I like this idea, it's always good to teach coding to people. However, I'm not sure whether it's more of a motivation or a good kind of distraction ;)
As a maid fan, did I mention the maids? ^^
In case of the maids, if they are really interested in it (not just another paycheck) and can learn enough to use the skills (more than just beginner courses), then this might even help a bit to improve the diversity in developers. Which in my experience is always a benefit and important source of ideas/solutions.
Anyway it's another unique idea only in Japan.
It bothers me that young women have to objectify themselves like this to get a coding education?
I think this is more a cultural (and maybe also generational/sub-culture) difference than objectifying.
Still I understand your point and did hear similar thoughs (even from some anime/gaming convention visitors) in regards to maid cafes.
However, everytime I had the chance to talk to a maid (which was always at a convention and never in japan nor in a commercial cafe/place) and asked them why they dress up as a maid. The answer was always "for fun", often because they like to cosplay/creating cosplays or interacting with people.
In my opinion maid cafes, cosplay and also this schools experiment isn't to objectify the girls or even with a sexual though behind it. Even if this doesn't exclude a chance of sexy/cute attraction, but to be honsest that's also the case if a cute girl dresses normally.
A outfit should never define how we treat any person and harasement/discrimination is always bad no matter what's the reason behind it.
Still, I don't know the situation there and everyone can have his/her own opinion about it.
Also, in the rules for registering for the course (on the official japanese page, according to bing/google translate), they mention that the school may remove students that doesn't follow the instructions of the staff (which propably includes the maids themself, since they are employed).
Thanks for sharing your opinion!
happy to be the first comment here .. amazing dear
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