Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

James Bottomley
2013-07-19T20:33:44Z

On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 14:56 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 13:42 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
> > But you are avoiding the question as well; do you think there's
> > something fundamentally different about the female brain that makes
> > them more susceptible to personal attacks? If yes, where is the
> > scientific evidence? If there's no evidence, then it's merely an
> > opinion that is not shared by others (e.g. me), and if no, then
> > whatever the men can take, the women can take as well, so nothing
> > needs to change.
>
> I don't know bout susceptible to personal attacks, but I have two
> teenage daughters and I can't figure them out yet. I'll say something
> that I think might get them upset and they are fine with it. Then I'll
> say something, where I see no harm, and suddenly I'm the most evil
> person in the world and they go all emotional on me.

I'm afraid I've got bad news for you: That's not a male/female thing,
that's a teenage thing. I'm also afraid that it's set to continue for a
while yet.

> Women are too complex for me to figure out. Perhaps men are just too
> simple minded (my wife keeps telling me that). Or perhaps it's just
> me ;-)

If you're basing your entire theory on male/female interaction on
teenagers, then I'm afraid your wife might be on to something ...

James