[GTALUG] Gender discrimination

[Karen Lewellen]

My comment was in reply to malgosia, which I do not believe is your name?



On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, Dave Cramer wrote:

> It most certainly was.
>
> Exactly what did I say that was offensive ?
>
> Dave Cramer
>
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> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 18:20, Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> Dave Cramer
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 18:01, Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, Malgosia Askanas via talk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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