[clug] What? There's women on this list! Since when?! [WAS: Google compared to latest Microsoft evilness]

[Lana Brindley]

I have a sneaking suspicion you might be offending a whole *other* group of
people by using that term ;)
L

2009/7/11 Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>

> 'Comrade' might be an appropriate and inclusive gender-neutral term
> for a group engaged in an dialectical  struggle with 'The Man' and
> 'his' software.   It has the added advantage that it gets up the nose
> of the big end of town...
>
> jim
>
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Lana Brindley<lanabrindley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > By that same rationale, it's about time we started to lose the
> gender-laden
> > terms from our language, and start to act in a less misogynistic
> > and exclusive manner.
>
> --
> _________________
> Jim Croft ~ jim.croft at gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~
> http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft
>
> ... in pursuit of the meaning of leaf ...
>



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Cheers! Lana

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to
be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time
to read reviews.
 - William Faulkner

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