From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)
Subject: Re: CONF: SIGGRAPH "nanosex" panel
Date: 15 Aug 1993 23:25:01 -0400
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <24mo2g$p3e@news.u.washington.edu> Chris Shaw <cdshaw@cs.ualberta.ca>
 writes:
>Minority men being unable to understand Cartesian coordinates, I
>suppose.  Apparently, someone once deconstructed mathematics and came
>to the conclusion that it's accessible only to men. Tie this to the
>political point that our society is dominated white men, and what you
>get is the boiled-down slogan you mention.

    I wasn't trying to start a PC debate, but to get some
clarification on what the panelist was saying.  I'd be curious to know
if anyone who responded thus far was actually at the panel, or if
people are just giving their interpretations of my post.
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