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by kmm 5191 days ago
I assumed the point was that it doesn't matter. Kids get interested in computers regardless of their gender.

But you're right, it probably isn't the most descriptive title.

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Yes, the point of the post was that it had a lot more to do with being a kid with a computer than with being male or female. The point of the title was that it was a story of ... a girl and her computers :)
The switch from 'a girl and her computers' to 'girls and computers' is a problem in itself (pop culture ref: http://xkcd.com/385/). Would you take a story of a boy and his first computer and call it 'boys and computers'? Why is one girl representative of the group?
'Girls' has a very different meaning from 'a girl'.