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I feel that OP’s idea that Parker’s wife wouldn’t be on board with “nerdy/tech-y stuff” smacks of sexism to me. No reason she couldn’t be an equal partner in th

by 542458 6y ago

I feel that OP’s idea that Parker’s wife wouldn’t be on board with “nerdy/tech-y stuff” smacks of sexism to me. No reason she couldn’t be an equal partner in this, or at least a non-detractor.

pc86 6y ago
Horse: He made a joke. Zebra: He's a sexist pig who can't fathom the idea of a technical woman working on something with her technical husband.
DWakefield 6y ago
100% agree. I did a very similar project this year - at my wife's insistence. Guess who's done most of the programming now that I've got the techy hardware side done?
UncleOxidant 6y ago
If that's the case why didn't he mention her help?
- beeper-beeps 6y ago
  Parker definitely mentions her input and discussions they have about these topics in other videos and interviews.
- gus_massa 6y ago
  I'm not sure that she helps him, but looking at the sibling comment, it is not a bad guess. I ask my wife a lot of questions, for example if I get stuck in a calculation or a result makes no sense. Sometimes about the redaction of a sentence. Sometimes just general questions over diner. She ask me too. I remember that she was missing a transpose sign in his dissertation, and I found the error. It was a tiny fix, and no worth mentioning.
forty 6y ago
You might be seeing sexism where there is none. His wife (partner) might really be a man (I have no idea and don't really care) and it would not make any difference on OP's comment (I assume it can happen that one person in a couple has a very seemingly useless hobby which is so time consuming that it impacts their house keeping involvement, regardless of their genders).
- gugagore 6y ago
  "wife" doesn't mean "partner", in case anyone else reading this thinks otherwise. If you don't want to assume a man is heterosexual, don't assume he has a wife.
  - forty 6y ago
    Yes, i guess "wife" assumes he has a partner, that this partner is a woman, and probably that they are married too. I don't think any of this really matters here, I think the joke can be understood even if none of those assumptions are true :)
    - forty 6y ago
      Also, if we are nitpicking, I'll add that the gender of the person you are married with is only loosely related to your sexual preference (ie there might be homosexual men that are married to a woman for some reasons - cultural or legal for example, depending on the country you live in) ;)
      - gugagore 6y ago
        You're not wrong that all words about human identity and behavior and politics have fuzzy (or really no) boundaries. But this is not a nitpick you can apply to my statement. I'm not saying to assume people's sexuality from their gender and the gender of their partner. If your stance is that it's not necessarily sexist, which honestly I respect in part, it's nonsense to argue that the comment may not be sexist, because "wife" may mean "husband". It's not a competition to see who can make the fewest assumptions.
        forty 6y ago
        I did not mean that wife means husband in general, but I meant that it may not have been used here to specifically point out the gender of the partner but more generically (as it's common for to assume opposite gender for the partner even without malice)
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pc86 6y ago

Horse: He made a joke. Zebra: He's a sexist pig who can't fathom the idea of a technical woman working on something with her technical husband.

DWakefield 6y ago

100% agree. I did a very similar project this year - at my wife's insistence. Guess who's done most of the programming now that I've got the techy hardware side done?

UncleOxidant 6y ago

If that's the case why didn't he mention her help?

beeper-beeps 6y ago
Parker definitely mentions her input and discussions they have about these topics in other videos and interviews.
gus_massa 6y ago
I'm not sure that she helps him, but looking at the sibling comment, it is not a bad guess. I ask my wife a lot of questions, for example if I get stuck in a calculation or a result makes no sense. Sometimes about the redaction of a sentence. Sometimes just general questions over diner. She ask me too. I remember that she was missing a transpose sign in his dissertation, and I found the error. It was a tiny fix, and no worth mentioning.

forty 6y ago

You might be seeing sexism where there is none. His wife (partner) might really be a man (I have no idea and don't really care) and it would not make any difference on OP's comment (I assume it can happen that one person in a couple has a very seemingly useless hobby which is so time consuming that it impacts their house keeping involvement, regardless of their genders).

gugagore 6y ago
"wife" doesn't mean "partner", in case anyone else reading this thinks otherwise. If you don't want to assume a man is heterosexual, don't assume he has a wife.
- forty 6y ago
  Yes, i guess "wife" assumes he has a partner, that this partner is a woman, and probably that they are married too. I don't think any of this really matters here, I think the joke can be understood even if none of those assumptions are true :)
  - forty 6y ago
    Also, if we are nitpicking, I'll add that the gender of the person you are married with is only loosely related to your sexual preference (ie there might be homosexual men that are married to a woman for some reasons - cultural or legal for example, depending on the country you live in) ;)
    - gugagore 6y ago
      You're not wrong that all words about human identity and behavior and politics have fuzzy (or really no) boundaries. But this is not a nitpick you can apply to my statement. I'm not saying to assume people's sexuality from their gender and the gender of their partner. If your stance is that it's not necessarily sexist, which honestly I respect in part, it's nonsense to argue that the comment may not be sexist, because "wife" may mean "husband". It's not a competition to see who can make the fewest assumptions.
      - forty 6y ago
        I did not mean that wife means husband in general, but I meant that it may not have been used here to specifically point out the gender of the partner but more generically (as it's common for to assume opposite gender for the partner even without malice)

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