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Feb. 11th, 2004

02:17 pm - Geeks in love...

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Hi!

This is a fun read: Sex Tips For Geeks: Sex and Consequences. I hope you enjoy it half as much as I did. The only real problem with the writing style is that it is written from a relentlessly male point of view, even though almost all of it applies equally to both (all?) genders.

-(Cheers) generalist

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From:angelbob
Date:February 11th, 2004 11:34 pm (UTC)
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Wow. There's a whole directory of it there... And from ESR, no less.
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From:xeger
Date:February 11th, 2004 11:42 pm (UTC)
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Hrm. It's an interesting read, although it's written not only from a relentlessly male point of view, but from a relentlessly hetero point of view, too.
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From:(Anonymous)
Date:February 12th, 2004 01:03 am (UTC)
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You posted something by ESR? About sex? Ew.

Also, ditto re: the bits about the male and hetero POV.
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From:generalist
Date:February 12th, 2004 02:52 am (UTC)

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Hi!


Yup, I did post a pointer to something by ESR. About sex (sort of). And I'd post something by Stalin about imprisonment, too, if it caught my eye or I thought it was interesting. My point of view is that writing and ideas are to be judged on their own merits, not the merits of the writer. I don't know much about ESR, other than that he's an effective hacker and has done some tasteless things; both of these I know because they were told to me by people I trust.


So let's accept for the moment the premise that ESR is despicable. Even so, if he does something good, does his despicable nature void it? If he writes something interesting (not that this was soooo interesting as all that), does it somehow become not interesting as soon as we know he wrote it?


-(Puzzledly) generalist


PS: Why do you think this comment was posted anonymously? Is it perhaps because anonymity makes multiple-target character-bashing easier?

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From:xthread
Date:February 12th, 2004 01:57 am (UTC)
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I think that's 'relentlessly vanilla male hetero' at this point...
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