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

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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.

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On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:

> Has anyone actually met Garrett Smith in person?  I smell a sock puppet.
>  Feel free to reply to me offlist if you like.
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> Rachel1.0
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> On 4/5/13 3:32 PM, Snail wrote:
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>> [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:
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>>     On 4/5/13, Darius Garza <313kid at gmail.com <mailto:313kid at gmail.com>>
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>>     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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