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The first mission for Ze Frank's new show: describe a dream in 20 seconds(ashow.zefrank.com)
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by unalone 15y ago
Oh, there're plenty of idiots on MetaFilter. $5 curbs growth but is no indicator of intelligence. Trust me. Give credit where credit is due: MeFi's moderation team is hands-down the best on the Internet. It's astonishing how much shit they
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by unalone 15y ago
I think it's actually better now than it was. There are a number of contrarian voices in each contentious thread arguing firmly that there's more to an issue than perhaps simple analysis would give credit for. There used to be more of an Ay
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by unalone 15y ago
Dustin Curtis is a jerk. But I thought I'd made it clear that I wouldn't have minded this happening even if it had happened to somebody else. Ultimately, what's valuable about Svtble is where Dustin's capable of taking it, both as a netwo
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by unalone 15y ago
Your deciding what is and isn't important for women to care about is a perfect example of privilege. When somebody says they care about something, the right response is to take note of why they care, and try not to repeat the mistakes on di
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by unalone 15y ago
You started this conversation, Thomas. You don't get a break when you're the one actively participating. I don't mind seeing interesting ideas freed from smug people who'd rather hoard them publicly. I don't mind seeing interesting ideas fr
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by unalone 15y ago
I thought my joke was lighthearted enough, and metatextual enough, that it wouldn't offend anybody or make anybody feel uncomfortable. If my joke made anyone feel like their voice wasn't welcome in this conversation, then I apologize, and I
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by unalone 15y ago
Copying is liberation. You're freed from relying on the original instance. The issue I took with Dustin wasn't just the idiocy with which he decided making a pretty blog equated to somehow creating the future of journalism. It was how, wh
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by unalone 15y ago
> don't worry about minor things when there are important things that mess with your life and your society Important things like women making less money than men, being more subjected to media objectification, being the target of laws t
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by unalone 15y ago
What's brown and sticky? A stick! What's green, four-legged, and would kill you if it hit you falling out of a tree? A pool table! Where does a general keep his armies? Up his sleevies!
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by unalone 15y ago
Good point. I was aiming, with my comment, to pre-empt a lot of the responses which usually show up in a discussion like this. I don't think what I said was a derail: The biggest obstacle in these discussions is simply that people don't re
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by unalone 15y ago
Yet another common trope in gender discussions is this idea that people shouldn't complain about sexism because there are more important things to worry about. We are complex machines that are capable of worrying about multiple cultural i
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by unalone 15y ago
I don't see what's so difficult, Thomas. A clever, smug person posted about a project of his and behaved poorly when people complained about not having access to it. So somebody else cloned it – not to steal the thunder, but to let people
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An elephant playing with a Galaxy Note(youtube.com)
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by unalone 15y ago
Obtvse was open-sourced for a reason: so that people could take it and modify it and use it however they'd like. This is open-source working.
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by unalone 15y ago
I'm looking back through my comment history and most of my jokes are upvoted pretty highly. Like I said above, maybe you're just not very funny.
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by unalone 15y ago
Oh definitely! It's a silly grade-school joke. Which is one of the reasons, I think, why this conversation is so difficult: nobody's thinking "Let me go out and reinforce the patriarchy", twirling their evil mustaches, they're just making a
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by unalone 15y ago
> I feel like lately the discussion has become more intelligent. Or is that just wishful thinking on my part? Knock on wood. (THAT'S WHAT SHE SAoh god damn)
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by unalone 15y ago
> To quote Stephen Fry: "So fucking what?". Fry was saying that in response to people who were offended by his being gay. I hope you find at least a little humor in the fact that you've taken a quote from a man trying to fight bigotry
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by unalone 15y ago
Ha, no worries! It's just Internet points. :)
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by unalone 15y ago
The fact that the woman is only talking because she's in bed is what makes her a sexual object. The shes of this world say a whole lot more than cheesy bedroom euphemisms, you know. But the joke is situated on the premise that it's cool t
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by unalone 15y ago
I was worried about people thinking I meant what I said when I wrote it. Then I decided that maybe the fact that people could theoretically take it seriously was a good reason to keep it how it was.
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by unalone 15y ago
> If they're actually funny (most of the "That's what she said" jokes are not), why not? It depends on the audience. I think that sexist jokes are in as poor taste in a workplace as racist jokes would be. I'd also be against black jokes
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by unalone 15y ago
Whoops, I'm sorry. I read your: > THAT is most likely the cause of the frustration of her co-workers and thought you said: > THAT is most likely the cause of her frustration of her co-workers I'm sorry for calling you out on somethi
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by unalone 15y ago
Really? What do you want? We want women to shut up and stop telling us that there's a problem with how we behave, because it's rude to tell people there's something innately wrong with their behavior. Also it takes so much time and effort
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by unalone 15y ago
Technology, in and of itself, is not a solution. But technology enables us to communicate to broader audiences and in more sophisticated ways, and that can enable individual people to find solutions that didn't previously exist.
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by unalone 15y ago
She SPECIFICALLY says that she's frustrated with how gendered the TWSS joke is: > I took it for granted that everyone was familiar with the “That’s what she said,” joke, but a recent conversation with a consultant friend made me realize
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by unalone 15y ago
> 1. attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles [...] devaluation based on a person's sex Here're the categories you could argue the bot falls into. The point of the "that's what she said" is to point out whe
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by unalone 15y ago
You know, reading this article half of me was thinking exactly this – it's so goddamn conceited and selfish to write something that says "treat your hackers like the supermen they are and allow them to do whatever they want whenever they wa
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by unalone 15y ago
Thanks! :-)

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