Re:Sure she's a good tech blogger, but what does she look like?
by axod on Saturday April 11, 2009 @03:43PM
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>> "Sexism is discrimination."
But our minds are programmed to discriminate. If a nice looking lady is doing a presentation on SSL, most mens brains will be in a struggle over what to concentrate on. Her body, or the content of the talk.
Re:Sure she's a good tech blogger, but what does she look like?
by TomOfTTB on Saturday April 11, 2009 @03:08PM
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Two things...
First, if you are going to make a distinction between sexism and sexuality than explain what the distinction is and not just your opinion of each thing.
Second racism, wasted human potential and economic justice don't help us continue to exist as a species.
Re:Sure she's a good tech blogger, but what does she look like?
by neilk on Saturday April 11, 2009 @03:17PM
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Sexism, at least in the workplace, is about: unequal rewards for work of equal value; hostile working environments that target individuals based on gender; and more besides.
Sexuality is so complex that I hesitate to define it here, but do you really think it necessarily includes paying a woman less, promoting them less, listening to them less? Or puerile insults?
Sexism is discrimination. Sexuality is, what it is.
Since being non-sexual is an impossibility you conclude that sexism is permanent. To me that seems very wrong.
and I do not see why we would want any cure.
For the same reasons we might want cures for racism. Wasted human potential. Economic injustice.
I don't know how we get there, but somehow we have to have a world that's able to deal with sexuality but also not discriminate in the workplace on the basis of gender or attractiveness. Maybe better, objective metrics?