[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: Re: XY Combinator

[Praveen Sinha]

Thanks for this Liz -- I think it's important to call out such thinking and
behavior based on false dichotomies.

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Liz Henry <liz at bookmaniac.org> wrote:

>
> Brian Morris wrote:
>
> > Show me a woman who doesn't consider a man's financial or job status as
> > judging him up. The responsibility goes both ways. Maybe its biologically
> built in but I believe both sides can and should work on dealing with it.
> Sadly so many so called political liberals on any issue in America love to
> assign blame.
> >
> > Nevertheless I had been ignoring this thread up to now as it seemed
> > inappropriate to this list, if it contains offensive material by all
> means censure those people !
>
> Hey Brian, I'm actually not sure what your point is here, but I'd prefer
> not to engage over private email.   What it sounds to me like you're
> saying is that:
>
> - My email from a week ago was somehow inappropriate to the list and I
> should shut up.
> - You are a gender essentialist.
> - You think women, as a whole, use men for their money.
> - The political opinions of "liberals" are whiny.
>
> To that I have to say:
>
> - No, it wasn't.
> - I'm not a gender essentialist.
> - Whatever, dude.  I suggest you avoid women if you think they're such
> jerks.
> - Also whatever, since I'm not "liberal".
>
> I recommend you go on ignoring this thread. You might even want to stop
> emailing me your opinions in private, since the result will be that I
> forward them to the list and say WTF to them, because I consider them
> bigoted and a tactic of silencing, and think that that pattern of
> private communication of bigotry can be quite harmful; I think it
> strongly enough to break whatever conventions of "don't forward private
> emails to a list".  Public discourse works better for me when calling
> out instances of sexism.
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> - Liz
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