On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:18:42PM -0400, Rick Scott wrote:
> Seeing as I know a lot of people (myself included) don't read
> Slashdot on anything approaching a regular basis, I was wondering
> if anyone had anything to say about:
>
> http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/sextips/
Actually I tend to follow slashdot's headlines, and do actually read the
highly moderated comments whenever there is a politcial or gender
related article (it's kind of self-flagellation).
So some of the responses in the article were shockers of the standard
slashdot variety - "sorry, I'll respect women when they choose to sleep
with men who respect them rather than drunken louts." Of course. That
explains it all. It's *my* bad taste in men.
Basically what ESR's article encourages is a view of woman's role as
useful in a relationship with a man. So instead of thinking "hey I
wonder if she can help me with my pointer arithmetic" young geekboy is
encouraged to think "I wonder if she'll go me when he meets geekgirl.
Even more so if she's a student of French literature rather than C.
Hence the women, and women, are discarded when there is no possibility
of sex. He doesn't address the issue of there being no possibility of
sex in the first place.
So basically, women not only defined in terms of their usefulness to me,
but defined in terms of their usefulness to men for sex.
Yum.
Mary.
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