From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-05-13T23:03:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Redesign 2005, Round Two

On 5/13/05, Nikolai Weibull
<mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
> Bill Guindon, May 13:
> 
> > If you read it like the original... "A woman needs a man like a fish
> > needs a bicycle." It's a compliment.  It's only us weak minded males
> > who need Ruby, the women out there can accomplish the same tasks, in
> > the same time (or less) using Cobol if they want.
> 
> No, it's not a compliment, and your interpretation is quite flawed.  The
> positive segregation you suggest is ludicrous.  Do you actually suggest
> that, by analogy, a fish can transport itself faster using a tricycle
> than a human on a bicycle?  That's precisely what your interpretation
> implies.

It has nothing to do with how fast a fish can use a bicycle, it has to
do with the fact that a fish doesn't need a bicycle.  Here's the
'real' original quote:

  "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
  -- Gloria Steinem

The point is, she won't miss him, because she never needed him, and
can accomplish as much (if not more) without him.  It was definitely
intended to be a complimentary statement, and goes back to one of the
first feminists.
 
> Women aren't better programmers, just as they aren't more well suited at
> taking care of children,

I never said they were (then again, I wouldn't say they aren't
either), I was just commenting on the quote.

>         nikolai
> 

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)