On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:28, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a (probably unfounded) hope that guys on the linux >> lists will look for other things in women than just their >> external (!) beauty. >> > > Of course, if they can't cook then they're right out! > > Seriously, though, a production company was looking for stereotypical > geeks and approached a Linux list maintainer. Were you not aware of > the stereotype before you joined the list? Would you think it > insulting if they were looking for Jewish extremists and approached > the Hebron community? If they were looking for Salsa dancers and > approached a community of Bolivian immigrants? These people know where > to find what they need. It does not mean that everybody on the list > meets the stereotype (they contacted Orna, a _female_) but it is > reasonable to assume that there exist in this community stereotypical > geeks. Where else should they have looked, in a gym? On the beach? >
Sometimes they dress up the reality as well, to make it fit their stereotypes: http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.television_articles_item,789,209,56729,.aspx Another good reason for every sane person to keep a safe distance from "reality" TV. --Shachar _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
