[Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

[Michael Ben-Nes]

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.

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2011/1/17 Mordecha Behar <mordecha.behar at 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 <uri at speedy.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <
>> ladypine at 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
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>> E-mail: uri at speedy.net
>> Website: http://www.speedy.net/
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