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Something tells me Erdős didn't resort immediately to personal insults when faced with the problem, though.

• astrange 6y ago
  I'm not sure about that since Erdos had the typical pre-GenZ-wokeness vocabulary of a nerd, where everything they said was worded as an insult to people less smart or with different hobbies than him. To the point where it's in his Wikipedia article: > Women were "bosses" who "captured" men as "slaves" by marrying them. Divorced men were "liberated". > People who stopped doing mathematics had "died", while people who died had "left". > Music (except classical music) was "noise". (Did boomers ever notice all their wife-based humor was about how much they hated theirs?)
  • mcphage 6y ago
    > Did boomers ever notice all their wife-based humor was about how much they hated theirs? Probably, because the husband-based humor was the same.
• TchoBeer 6y ago
  Something tells me Erdős wasn't immune to sexism and would've probably not been immune to being a bit sexist here too.
  • pmiller2 6y ago
    Something tells me he probably didn't care who was explaining it to him, as long as he understood.