On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Mohan R <mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 22:07 +0530, A. Mani wrote: >> http://www.businessinsider.in/Atlassian-Developer-Makes-A-Horribly-Sexist-Presentation-At-A-Tech-Conference/articleshow/36068487.cms
> How come a complaint from a boy about his girlfriend marked as sexism? I > was expecting some B-word, W-word, C-word, F-word in that slide, but > nothing is there. It is sexism because the person in question objectified* her by saying that a software behaves like her (the context has sexual overtones as it is between the two of them). * In the colloquial sense, objectification is usually used with a negative connotation. It often refers to the reduction of a complete, whole person to a mere one-dimensional thing. One of the main complaints about objectification is that it denies the humanity of the "object." Objectification leads to abusive behaviour. If one really respects another person then they would not do that. Advanced: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-objectification/ Best A. Mani A. Mani [Last_Name. First_Name Format] CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
