[Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

[Shachar Raindel]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:28, Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a (probably unfounded) hope that guys on the linux
>> lists will look for other things in women than just their
>> external (!) beauty.
>>
>
> Of course, if they can't cook then they're right out!
>
> Seriously, though, a production company was looking for stereotypical
> geeks and approached a Linux list maintainer. Were you not aware of
> the stereotype before you joined the list? Would you think it
> insulting if they were looking for Jewish extremists and approached
> the Hebron community? If they were looking for Salsa dancers and
> approached a community of Bolivian immigrants? These people know where
> to find what they need. It does not mean that everybody on the list
> meets the stereotype (they contacted Orna, a _female_) but it is
> reasonable to assume that there exist in this community stereotypical
> geeks. Where else should they have looked, in a gym? On the beach?
>

Sometimes they dress up the reality as well, to make it fit their stereotypes:

http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.television_articles_item,789,209,56729,.aspx

Another good reason for every sane person to keep a safe distance from
"reality" TV.

--Shachar