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OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be consideringOK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be consideringPosted Aug 27, 2009 22:32 UTC (Thu) by artibasos (guest, #60487)In reply to: OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering by forthy Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software
"Women hate us geeks."
I am so glad to know that "geek" and "women" are mutually exclusive
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OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering Posted Aug 28, 2009 0:29 UTC (Fri) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]
Hmm. Three comments that all say the same thing. Maybe my joke detectors are off, or perhaps you all missed what he was trying to say. Or perhaps this is some kind of meta-sarcasm meant to trip up someone like me, stepping right into trap...
I think the guy was trying to say, poorly, that he thought women would be most attracted to sort of (male) social climbers who try to get status, not the sort of people who dress poorly and don't care if they work for free for idealistic reasons. Starting from the next paragraph he's quite clearly implying a mate-selection context with "What matters a lot to women is if you are wealthy or at least care about wealth."
OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering Posted Aug 28, 2009 21:51 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yeah. That's also implying that all readers are male. And people wonder why women feel out of place in this community...
OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering Posted Aug 28, 2009 22:33 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] I just took his comment on what he thinks women like as irrelevant to the discussion.If anyone wants to discuss why some women go for abusive dirtbags instead of you, with all of your shining geeky qualities :-), there are appropriate net venues. LWN isn't one.
OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering Posted Aug 29, 2009 21:54 UTC (Sat) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]
Well where does it say that it's suddenly unfair to address your words to male audience, either implicitly or explicitly. I just noticed that apparently not one of the women seemed to read further than that sentence until firing a comment, because that's the only thing they commented upon and I think it wasn't even what frosty meant. Maybe he could show up to clarify, though.
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