Do we need chaperones?
Category: Society & Culture...
Posted Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 03:00 PM [GMT-6]

The article related to the interview I posted about on Monday is now up at the Canadian Broadcasting Company's website.

The writer, Georgie Binks, covers a lot of ground and provides men with some tips about how they're perceived nowadays by women in certain situations.

Take it for granted men that every time the elevator stops at a floor where there is a lone woman, she is stepping on with great trepidation. After all, she has been counselled not to get on an elevator at all, if there is a lone man on board, because it leaves her at risk of an attack.

You see keys in her hand? She's ready to stab you with them if you lurch at her. If you're walking down the road at night and you see a woman ahead, cross to the other side, because she likely fears you'll attack her.

I got two paragraphs and two quotes and Georgie Binks, professional that she is, managed to make me not sound like the doofus I am. My only quibble* is that she refers to me as a website developer, which seems to connote more competence than I can claim; I prefer "a guy who builds websites," even though it makes for an awkward business card.

Well, maybe two quibbles. I guess it's a blogger thing, but had I written an online column in which I mentioned that one of my interviewees had written an online article about the subject, I would have provided a link to said article. Uh, sort of like in this post, for example. But that's just me.

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Wow! Look at the way she refers to you! Paragraph 10: evangelist Billy Graham. Paragraph 11: website developer Eric Siegmund. It's like your web sites are on the same par as Billy Graham's evangelism. Stylistically, that's a great compliment.

Best of all, she had a sensitive "slant" on your precautions. I have to admit, I was wondering what sort of treatment she was going give them.

Posted by: Mr. Freen at January 29, 2005 11:19 PM

Georgie Binks? Something sounds fishy with that name.....a pseudonym? In reality a 65 y.o. man?

Posted by: Wallace-Midland, Texas at January 29, 2005 11:28 PM

Mr. Freen, I too was happy with her take on the subject. I wasn't too surprised, given the tone of the interview, but I guess you never know what will actually make it to print.

And Wallace, you obviously haven't visited Georgie's website! ;-)

Posted by: Eric at January 30, 2005 09:05 AM
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