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

Ariel Rokem arokem at gmail.com
Sat Apr 6 06:19:31 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Garrett, you need to take to heart the difference between clinical
> observation and population study.  Then you will be able to disabuse
> yourself of the notion that you can extrapolate generalizations about
> "women" and "men" (which I put in quotes because these are not two
> homogeneous groups by any stretch of the imagination).
>
> Please keep in mind, the media does not report science accurately, and
> they are particularly bad at conveying this particular point.
>
>
Well put. Meanwhile, in a peer-reviewed part of the internet:

http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/Abstract.aspx?ART_DOI=10.3389/fnint.2011.00057&name=integrative_neuroscience#



> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 4/5/13, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>> You are making a false statement. I never said EFF was a front for the
>> Carlyle group and I do not appreciate being misrepresented.
>>
>> George Soros was a principal investor in the Carlyle group. Soros also
>> has a prominent role in EFF (look it up) so that's a front for him.
>>
>> Such simple facts should be easy enough to verify by searching the
>> web, so why didn't you do that?
>> http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Soros
>>
>> And search on about grey matter, estrogen receptors in the brain, and
>> the like. No need to take my word on any of this. Alas, some will get
>> mad at Google search results, and this has resulted in lawsuits and
>> removed sites.
>>
>> [...]
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