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Article #492Re: jokes & sexisim in physics
From: Carl Witthoft
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 20:55
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 20:55
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x Men just don't get it. One of the things we don't get is that it's absurd for a bunch of men to pontificate as to whether certain jokes are offensive to women and whether this is part of the reason women avoid science (or for that matter football). Women know. The sooner men stop speaking for them and listening to them, the better. I also hate the common use (see one line up) of "them" or "us" in discussions of the difference between the genders. We could possibly be united :=( -- Carl Witthoft @ Adaptive Optics Associates aoa!carl@bbn.com carl@aoa.utc.com 54 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge,MA 02140 617-864-0201 "My Karma just ran over my Dogma!"
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!yale!actcnews!aoa!carl From: carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft) Subject: Re: jokes & sexisim in physics Message-ID: <1992Nov4.205525.2541@aoa.aoa.utc.com> Keywords: sexism women women-physicists Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates References: <1992Oct28.230836.22755@galois.mit.edu> <3eHFTB3w165w@1776.COM> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 20:55:25 GMT Lines: 17