{"id":100,"date":"2007-07-16T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T18:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/07\/16\/thoughts-on-seduce-a-woman-today\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T15:47:53","slug":"thoughts-on-seduce-a-woman-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/07\/16\/thoughts-on-seduce-a-woman-today\/","title":{"rendered":"thoughts on seduce a woman today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I know of Nat Torkington is that he&#8217;s generally funny, from <strike>Australia<\/strike> New Zealand and actively recruited women for talks for OSCON. A comment on a blog entry he made about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/support_open_so.html\">seducing a woman<\/a>&#8221; highlights a long-running struggle in the tech community &#8212; how do women point out sexism or offense at humor in the tech community? This person chose to be anonymous, which is unfortunate. I think the way to change the tone of humor like this is to be direct and put your name on your objections.<\/p>\n<p>I rolled my eyes when I read Nat&#8217;s blog entry, but I didn&#8217;t think of it as sexist &#8212; just a tortured analogy that wasn&#8217;t very funny (sorry, Nat). As with many gender-related issues, perception varies.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad that anonymous made their feelings known. And, Brenda probably gave the most effective (although not direct) critique &#8211; at least one that Nat responded to. It&#8217;s time that more of us ladies spoke up when we see something that&#8217;s subtly or overtly sexist being passed off as humor.<\/p>\n<p>As Larry Gelbart, M*A*S*H producer, said &#8220;Most jokes state a bitter truth.&#8221;  Let the people who are publishing know that we&#8217;re reading, and that we have senses of humor too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comment on a blog entry he made about &#8220;seducing a woman&#8221; highlights a long-running struggle in the tech community &#8212; how do women point out sexism or offense at humor in the tech community? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/07\/16\/thoughts-on-seduce-a-woman-today\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}