Re:Secretary Problem
by roel_v on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @03:56AM
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Do you really need to ask? Are you seriously incapable of seeing that some people might be offended (stupidly, if you ask me, but that doesn't make them any less so) by a story where a woman is apparently picked like cattle by a feudal lord?
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Re:Secretary Problem
by greenpresident on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @05:02AM
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I suspect he meant to say that the analogy accurately depicts something that really happens. An assessment that, incidentally, is pretty politically incorrect in itself.
Ah, yes, what an accurate depiction of the "tribe."
Seriously, if you want to go the accurate route, probably best to pick a specific people where that's what actually happens. Not having done that, the problem as stated advances stereotypes of peoples that are referred to as "tribes" as being primitive and misogynistic.
Perhaps use "nation" instead, or better yet, formulate the problem differently.