Even good dudes can think stupid things. Sorry this happened.
Always the correct response. Always.
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That’s a good point. Usually it’s a bit of both.
A friend of mine told me about going on a date with a motormouth. At once point she started getting ready to leave, and he said, “Wait! Let me finish my story!” She said all she’d done was let him finish his story.
The date did not end cordially.
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There’s never a need to come up with an excuse to post a Rosey Grier vignette!
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You can have this happen to you if you’re male, and at a business lunch. These people aren’t sufficiently aware of their audience to distinguish.
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Lecherous, racist, piece of shit, for sure.
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At a business lunch, I don’t care about any of these people. I just need to get along with them so we can do business. Dating is a totally different dynamic. I’m willing to work with someone I don’t like, because that’s called being an adult, but dating them? Hard pass.
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This convo is reminding me of this tweet:
And this comment on that tweet:
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Yeah, I’ll buy that.
When they say “geek is the new cool”, they just mean that it’s now cool to be a guy (white male, obvs) who wears glasses, watches Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and works with computers. It’s cool to be geeky, as long as that geekiness is a cultivated image and conscious social choice rather than a failure to comply with social norms.
Talking people’s ears off about the Holy Roman Empire or Chinese epics will never be cool. An obsession with Harry Partch will never be cool. Cracking jokes about stochastic processes… yep, it’ll never be cool. If you do these things, you’re my kind of person, but you’re not cool.
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Thats the gulf between “geek” and “nerd” right there. 
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Only examples I can come up with are from Wicked: “Loathing”, and, of course…
Prounounced “EE-gore” or “EYE-gore?”
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It’s a digital assistant, so iGor.
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But people might get it confused with the anti-feminist subculture with the stories with the houseplants and everything.
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This time it’s just 
To paraphrase Herbert Morrison, “Oh, the stupidity!”
There’s another distinction that bothers me – “artists” vs. “crafters.” Yeah who gets to decide? There’s art I dislike intensely and craft that I love.
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I seem to recall that there was a story about sex robots returned to the factory for repairs with horrible levels of damage to their replica sex organs.
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I can answer this. I worked at BellSouth Cellular’s R&D Lab when we were testing voice recognition software of the era. There were certain frequencies of women’s voices that could break the recognition software. We had a woman in the lab who was the big guinea pig for a lot of this because her voice was in the register.
In general, women’s voices were harder for the recognition software, and Southern accents, too. Accents in general. This was ages and ages ago, so things might have changed.
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On behalf of everyone who’s had to tell a partner “that hurt and not in a good way, and if you don’t stop it we are stopping entirely”, I just hope it was an educational experience.
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Underrated comment right here.
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Thats easy! The Artists do! /s
I joke, but its true. The people that go to school for “art” bristle at being included with any of us self taught handicraft people. I made the mistake of going to a two-day conference on “The State of Craft in Canada” - which I thought would be about, you know, CRAFT. Instead, it was two days of PhDs and MfAs moaning about the dilution of the word “Craft” by people like me. Worst conference ever!
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But is their craft seaworthy?
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