Comments on: Sergey Brin: Smartphones are "emasculating"

By: Lobster

Lobster — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:14:00 +0000

Think I’ve got a little something to Ask Jeeves.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:40:00 +0000

He was doing laps across the pool? He must have one heck of a long tongue.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:39:00 +0000

That is a god point about the dangers of voice activated hardware.

Future smart-car drives past; kids at the side of the road scream, “Deploy Airbags!”

By: retchdog

retchdog — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:01:00 +0000

and with an interface that more or less completely fails if it is raining or even sufficiently damp.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:48:00 +0000

”originate from misogyny” absolutely but women also do a fair amount of gender policing. In my experience women are quite capable of misogyny.

This is not to blame women for misogyny. Everyone is exposed to the culture and no one has very much control over how much of it they internalize.

By: Chris Wright

Chris Wright — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:57:00 +0000

This is specifically because men are told not to be like women with the implication that it’s bad to be like a woman. If men were told to be macho because they’re useless for anything else, with weak brains and atrophied emotions, that might be misandry — and our society would have to be built much differently for that to make sense.

By: technogeekagain

technogeekagain — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:55:00 +0000

Anyone who worries about whether being seen using a device is emasculating has serious self-image troubles. Not least that they’ve got a broken definition of masculinity, starting with the fact that they seem to be confusing it with machismo and continuing with the fact that even machismo is strongest when it doesn’t feel a need to defend itself.

What is it this month with people making statements about the world that give us more insight into their own hang-ups than we ever wanted?

By: Sheryl Westleigh

Sheryl Westleigh — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:05:00 +0000

It makes just as little sense in the “powerless” context. I can hold in the palm of my hand a piece of technology that gives me instant access to just about any piece of information I might need and is orders of magnitude more powerful than the computers used to send people to the moon.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:52:00 +0000

did he pair it with a utili-kilt?

By: C W

C W — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:34:00 +0000

What on earth does one have to do with the other?

By: C W

C W — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:33:00 +0000

His complete inability to imagine women in his target demographic, I suppose.

By: C W

C W — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:32:00 +0000

“Maybe just a bad choice of words, as it can also just mean ‘powerless’ (sigh, unfortunate root of alternate meaning,) but good god it sounds sexist and weird at first read.”

There’s really no need to go that far to give him undeserved credit. It’s sexist and “brogrammer”y.

By: C W

C W — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:31:00 +0000

“Men are under the same social pressures to be manly as women are to be womanly and those of us to whom the machismo doesn’t come naturally can sometimes end up feeling a bit insecure just as I’m sure many women do on their end.”

Yes, and as mentioned elsewhere, both pressures originate from misogyny and men.

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:54:00 +0000

I think it was a malapropism, I don’t like using my smartphone unless I have somewhere secure to stand, out of the way. I feel pretty unsteady if I’m walking, and worry about falling bumping into people. Maybe that’s what he meant by “emasculate”.

By: retchdog

retchdog — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:19:00 +0000

lists. sets are unordered. when evaluated, a mapped function will preserve ordering.

a functor is a homomorphism.

By: knappa

knappa — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:13:00 +0000

more like a functor to the category of sets.

By: social_maladroit

social_maladroit — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:21:00 +0000

Did you say, “OK, Glass…take a picture”?

By: Hunter Bond

Hunter Bond — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:32:00 +0000

How fitting, I just finished this book last night, as was thinking along the same lines. Kudos.

By: tré

tré — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:28:00 +0000

And just how do you know? Who are these other googles?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:24:00 +0000

Affix the Smartphone of Shame!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:09:00 +0000

Men are allowed to wash their own greasy overalls as long as they toss a bar of Lava into the washer instead of laundry detergent.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:06:00 +0000

Maybe you should switch to a less sticky lube.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:05:00 +0000

I was going to impugn his masculinity by suggesting that he was a 98-pound weakling, but he looks pretty athletic.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:32:00 +0000

Miniaturization has weakened the race.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:29:00 +0000

Apparently, you don’t know many burly, hairy homosexuals, because they’re just as likely to be limp-wristed and lisping as any of the other kinds.

By: Sekino

Sekino — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:25:00 +0000

Perfect. I for one am totally okay with our genderless overlordladies: http://boingboing.net/2013/02/26/david-bowie-and-tilda-swinton.html

By: Daemonworks

Daemonworks — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:24:00 +0000

Masculinity is for the weak.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:19:00 +0000

Vatican in Massive Google Glasses Purchase – film at 11.

By: jimh

jimh — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:47:00 +0000

Or a smartphone that is permanently docked in the dash of a Corvette?

By: jimh

jimh — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:41:00 +0000

Christ, dot dot dot