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Posted Sep 29, 2007 22:05 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet) by MisterIO
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)

Your google must be broken, or you would have found about the encephalization quotient pretty quickly. And the surrounding controversy, but at least you would be past "brain size to body mass", knowing that mice do better than people there.

I've had a lot of female IT collegues and nobody has ever discriminated them.

Nobody discriminates those small-brain female creatures, do they? Apart from considering them as inferior brainwise, we can trust corporate greediness to overcome those prejudices, right? Wow, that is really a recipe to fairness.

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Posted Sep 30, 2007 4:43 UTC (Sun) by MisterIO (guest, #36192) [Link] (1 responses)

There's a difference between discrimination as it is generally considered wrong,and a normal discrimination as you would mean simply to discern between 2 different things.If I say that men and women are different,I'm not discriminating.I would be discriminating if I had not given a job to a woman just because she's a woman.

I have some questions

Posted Sep 30, 2007 8:57 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

If you could enlighten me about a few issues: consider the following red herring.

I sure do not have any empirical proof of it,but it's certain that men's brain is generally bigger(not much but it is)than women's brain.Humans have more intelligence than animals because they have a bigger brain,why shouldn't this be true even between men and women?

Is it discrimination of the "good" kind, or of the "bad" kind? Does it inspire you to have no prejudices when you have to interview a woman? Do you think you are an isolated case in your company?

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Posted Sep 30, 2007 11:47 UTC (Sun) by stumbles (guest, #8796) [Link]

Interesting link, though it does not address those who suffer from osteo-encephalitis (inflammation of the brain due to a bone in the head). Which pretty much describes this thread.

Pointing out the he was a she (reminds me of the song Take a Walk on the Wild side or whatever it was) is about as useful as pointing out someones race, religion, etc. I frankly don't care.