[GTALUG] Gender discrimination

[Karen Lewellen]

Perhaps because  it is not present?
Karen


On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, Dave Cramer wrote:

> Karen,
>
> Apparently sarcasm doesn't come through email very well.
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> Dave Cramer
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> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 18:01, Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> wrote:
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>> What makes it universally fun to sensor people?  you indicate you know it
>> is fun...why?
>> I point that out because as your example illustrates generalizations tend
>> to  make no sense, and fun must be at least understandable as fun no?
>> Kare
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>> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, Malgosia Askanas via talk wrote:
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>>> So let me understand this.  If a woman (me, for example) would bemoan
>> the
>>> fact that 80% of participants in a certain field of endeavor are male,
>> that's
>>> not gender discrimination, right?  (I assume it isn't, since it goes on
>> all
>>> the time in all kinds of media, without any visible censorship.)  But if
>> a
>>> man bemoans the fact that 80% of participants in (another) field of
>> endeavor
>>> are female, that's gender discrimination?  To my mind, labeling the
>> latter as
>>> "gender discrimination seems like... gender discrimination.  Or is it
>> that,
>>> by definition, censoring a man cannot possibly be gender discrimination?
>>> I know it is fun to censor people, but isn't it *more* fun to do it for
>>> reasons that make sense?
>>>
>>> -malgosia
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