While democracy is important, some TV shows should be baned :) I just think of the youngsters who learn what is 'cool' from this TV show. Oh my, the damage to the brain tissues.
-------------------------------------------------- Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and Director. http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net. Cellular: 054-4848113 -------------------------------------------------- 2011/1/17 Mordecha Behar <mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il> > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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