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

[Mordecha Behar]

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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