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sexist

Posted Sep 30, 2007 1:11 UTC (Sun) by xanni (subscriber, #361)
In reply to: sexist by bk
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)

Yeah, because we all know that ethnicity and gender are exactly the same thing. Nice try, troll.

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Posted Sep 30, 2007 13:44 UTC (Sun) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link] (1 responses)

In the sense that they're both empirical truths with a genetic basis, yes. You are either [white/black/male/female] or you aren't, regardless of how you might wish to identify.

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Posted Sep 30, 2007 13:52 UTC (Sun) by xanni (subscriber, #361) [Link]

I'm sorry you live in such an Aristotelian world. Come and join the modern world of infinite complexity and grey areas some day; you'll find that very few things are actually sharply defined once you look at them closely.

More specifically, whether people are "white" or "black" is even less of an empirical truth than their gender. Not only that, but declaring that only genetics matters is bigoted, racist, sexist, and downright rude.