[oak perl] Linux posters

David Fetter david at fetter.org
Tue Oct 10 12:35:51 PDT 2006


On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:18:26PM -0700, Adrien Lamothe wrote:
> 
>    David Fetter <david at fetter.org> wrote:
> 
>      You're mistaken on many, many different counts here. Every single one of
>      them is what they call "sex positive" in the local jargon. There's a giant
>      difference between porn and its variants and the work place, where that
>      stuff is totally inappropriate. That the women I know who manage to stay
>      in technology aren't thrilled about seeing yet another unimaginative
>      objectification is not a giant surprise. Just getting through engineering
>      school and being out in the workplace is enough to cause a lot of them to
>      have a pretty short fuse for this kind of nonsense.
> 
>    Ah, yes, "sex positive", another cute Bay Area PC term, just as codified as
>    the laundry list of PC approved sexual behavior that goes along with it. I
>    wouldn't be surprised if Good Vibrations actually registers "sex positive"
>    as a trademark. Talk about nonsense. You must be a big hit in Berkeley,
>    David, you wield the jingoism quite readily.

As your favorite vice president said, "Go fuck yourself."

Cheers,
Dave.
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