<story><title>Sexism is not funny, let&apos;s stop laughing</title><url>http://johannakoll.posterous.com/sexism-is-not-funny-lets-stop-laughing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldtea</author><text>&amp;#62;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Political correctness&quot; is often a buzzword used to dismiss people who want to discuss this. Other, better, words exist. &quot;Politeness&quot; is one.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Freedom of expression&quot; is another, though.</text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>&amp;#62; Maybe gender related jokes don&apos;t have a place at conferences and work places&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; I mean, where does this political correctness stop&lt;p&gt;It seems really obvious to me.  At work, at a conference, you don&apos;t tell racist, sexist, ableist etc jokes.  What you do outside work is up to you.  (But, if you do it outside work and in public it may complicate things if you have a work related discrimination problem.)&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; political correctness&lt;p&gt;&quot;Political correctness&quot; is often a buzzword used to dismiss people who want to discuss this. Other, better, words exist.  &quot;Politeness&quot; is one.</text></item><item><author>flexie</author><text>People laugh when they hear a &quot;sexist&quot; joke because it&apos;s funny.&lt;p&gt;Maybe gender related jokes don&apos;t have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vannevar</author><text>We&apos;re not talking about criminalizing the behavior, so freedom of speech doesn&apos;t enter into the matter. The author is trying to change the market response to the behavior, by pointing out that it has a destructive aspect that many people (particularly men, who dominate the tech industry) may not be conscious of. One reason that we have freedom of speech is that it permits challenges to orthodoxy, and in this case the orthodox position being challenged is that sexist jokes are OK at professional conferences.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sexism is not funny, let&apos;s stop laughing</title><url>http://johannakoll.posterous.com/sexism-is-not-funny-lets-stop-laughing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldtea</author><text>&amp;#62;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Political correctness&quot; is often a buzzword used to dismiss people who want to discuss this. Other, better, words exist. &quot;Politeness&quot; is one.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Freedom of expression&quot; is another, though.</text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>&amp;#62; Maybe gender related jokes don&apos;t have a place at conferences and work places&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; I mean, where does this political correctness stop&lt;p&gt;It seems really obvious to me.  At work, at a conference, you don&apos;t tell racist, sexist, ableist etc jokes.  What you do outside work is up to you.  (But, if you do it outside work and in public it may complicate things if you have a work related discrimination problem.)&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; political correctness&lt;p&gt;&quot;Political correctness&quot; is often a buzzword used to dismiss people who want to discuss this. Other, better, words exist.  &quot;Politeness&quot; is one.</text></item><item><author>flexie</author><text>People laugh when they hear a &quot;sexist&quot; joke because it&apos;s funny.&lt;p&gt;Maybe gender related jokes don&apos;t have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmrfrmrf</author><text>I&apos;m sorry you feel that the rules of basic human decency are trampling on your first amendment rights.</text></comment>