[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: Some interesting thoughts on "benevolent sexism"

[Danny O'Brien]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Snail <snailtsunami at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a real person that at least one person confirmed to me having
> talked to in person at Noisebridge, and apparently DHTMLKitchen was a thing
> some years ago.
>
> >_<
>

I've met Garrett once. I hope I'm not misrepresenting his views to note he
once explained to (online) me how the EFF is a front for George Soros and
the military-industrial Carlyle Group. Adjust your bayesian priors
accordingly.

d.


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> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>wrote:
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>> Has anyone actually met Garrett Smith in person?  I smell a sock puppet.
>>  Feel free to reply to me offlist if you like.
>>
>> Rachel1.0
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>> On 4/5/13 3:32 PM, Snail wrote:
>>
>>> [top-posting like a fiend]
>>>
>>>
>>> It's talking about CONFIDENCE being the real indicator of performance,
>>> not SEX.
>>>
>>> Men feel more confident doing tasks like these because they've been told
>>> all their lives that it's their special Y-chromosome-given talent.
>>>
>>> Women lack confidence in these fields when men and women repeatedly tell
>>> them that they aren't going to be any good, which is exactly what you
>>> are doing, which is why we are all pissed off.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com**>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 4/5/13, Darius Garza <313kid at gmail.com <mailto:313kid at gmail.com>>
>>>
>>>     wrote:
>>>      > Interesting how googling "mental rotation and sex" confirms that
>>>     this is
>>>      > merely a socialized discrepancy:
>>>      > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/**pubmed/22130691<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22130691>
>>>      > .
>>>     That abstract doesn't imply anything of the sort.
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