חנונים are nerds, there's a difference. http://www.nerdist.com/2010/03/geeknerddorkdweeb-venn-diagram/
I think what people object to here (or at least what I object to) is the entire premise of the whole show. There are a few base assumptions here which are, imo, not necessarily true: 1. All geeks are men. 2. By inference, no pretty women are geeks. 3. Men geeks want an air-headed pretty woman as their significant other. 4. Men geeks are incapable of talking to and impressing a woman on their own, and therefore need a tv show to do it for them. The whole show is degrading and embarrassing to any intelligent person, men and women alike. The only possible reason I can see for wanting to participate in this show is to say "Look Ma! I'm on TV!" Which is a boneheaded reason. I think that's why anybody who does participate should not affiliate him/herself with any self-respecting geek organization. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Uri Even-Chen <u...@speedy.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladyp...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen <u...@speedy.net> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda < > ladyp...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > Clarification: even though I forwarded this to the list as part of my > >> > role as co-webmaster of haifux, and as a service to the community, I > >> > strongly join guy's view, and more: > >> > > >> > Please do not embarrass Haifux/Linux-il by declaring yourselves as > >> > members, when taking part in a stereotypic low-denominator TV program. > >> > >> I suppose you don't expect pretty young girls to use Linux. So I guess > >> you think the men who use Linux are all geeks? > > > > I think there are many geeks (and I do not mean "hnoonim"=socially > > challenged , but people who are autodidact, keen on technology/science, > have > > a lot of enthusiasm and proud of it) in the FOSS community, both male and > > female. I doubt the production was looking for the females, though, when > > they asked me to forward this. > > I think this list is at least 90% men. And the Hebrew word for geeks > is חנונים... > > Uri Even-Chen > Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 > E-mail: u...@speedy.net > Website: http://www.speedy.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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