Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 213.140.21.234]
on September 08, 2007 07:06 PM
Oh, yes, THAT'S the real problem with GNU/Linux! Not the struggle to create a more functional desktop. Not writing better drivers / pushing on the hardware companies to release specs. No, the problem is that we're "insulting" moms instead than dads.
How can we put an end to this incredibly stupid politically correct babble? It's *damn obvious* to everyone with a couple of connected neurons inside the skull that dads can be as clueless as moms on computers (and viceversa, moms can be expert in using PCs). However, the expression "easy enough for your mom" immediately conveys to anyone a meaningful image and communicates a concept much faster than "easy enough for your more technologically challenged adult relative that is not affected by mental retard", and anyone understands that even if your mom is actually a software engineer. The fact that saying "moms" instead that "dads" underlies a (perfectly innocent) gender bias in our culture? Oh, thank you to have discovered warm water. But what is insulting in that specific gender bias? Do you want to deny that *genders are actually different*? Maybe moms are a good example because they usually have much better and more useful things to do than playing around with installing Linux from scratch. Is that a *bad bias*? The Italian equivalent for "single mom" in that context is the peculiar "Voghera's housewife" (Voghera is a small Italian city). It's an expression used everyday to indicate the average Italian that hasn't time and the culture to deal with complex things (for example: "the tax modules should be easily compiled by the Voghera's housewife as well". You can take for granted that no actual Voghera housewife ever complained about that.
Actually, using that expression is a *gentle attention* towards moms: it's like saying "hey, we want you (that have other interests and priorities) to be able to use a computer".
So, I'd like mister Brockmeier to tell me: what do we solve by abolishing the mom's rephrasing? Is there an angry movement of single moms that feels downplayed by that? Or is it just a problem that exists just because *you* think it's a problem?
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 213.140.21.234] on September 08, 2007 07:06 PMHow can we put an end to this incredibly stupid politically correct babble? It's *damn obvious* to everyone with a couple of connected neurons inside the skull that dads can be as clueless as moms on computers (and viceversa, moms can be expert in using PCs). However, the expression "easy enough for your mom" immediately conveys to anyone a meaningful image and communicates a concept much faster than "easy enough for your more technologically challenged adult relative that is not affected by mental retard", and anyone understands that even if your mom is actually a software engineer. The fact that saying "moms" instead that "dads" underlies a (perfectly innocent) gender bias in our culture? Oh, thank you to have discovered warm water. But what is insulting in that specific gender bias? Do you want to deny that *genders are actually different*? Maybe moms are a good example because they usually have much better and more useful things to do than playing around with installing Linux from scratch. Is that a *bad bias*? The Italian equivalent for "single mom" in that context is the peculiar "Voghera's housewife" (Voghera is a small Italian city). It's an expression used everyday to indicate the average Italian that hasn't time and the culture to deal with complex things (for example: "the tax modules should be easily compiled by the Voghera's housewife as well". You can take for granted that no actual Voghera housewife ever complained about that.
Actually, using that expression is a *gentle attention* towards moms: it's like saying "hey, we want you (that have other interests and priorities) to be able to use a computer".
So, I'd like mister Brockmeier to tell me: what do we solve by abolishing the mom's rephrasing? Is there an angry movement of single moms that feels downplayed by that? Or is it just a problem that exists just because *you* think it's a problem?
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