[clug] What? There's women on this list! Since when?!
Daniel Pittman
daniel at rimspace.net
Sun Jul 12 00:07:57 MDT 2009
Jack Kelly <endgame.dos at gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Daniel Pittman<daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>> Francis James Whittle <fudje at grapevine.net.au> writes:
>>> No but seriously let's not jump on this whole "zOMG there's sexism in the
>>> free software community!!!!!!!!!!1!!111oneoneeeleven" bandwagon. Yes, the
>>> Ruby on Rails presentation was despicable, but there's such a thing as
>>> taking political correctness too far, and pretentious things like
>>> complaining because you personally can't handle someone using a word like
>>> "guys" as a gender-neutral term is well past it.
>>
>> I find the use of the term "guys" to refer to a group of people that, with any
>> luck, will continue to include women. This is not simple Lana objecting, and
>> is not restricted to only women.
>
> Hello fellow sentient,
>
> You find the use of the term "guys" what? I am both confused and
> reminded of the "I accidentally X" meme.
Ah, proofreading fail. I find it vaguely offensive, in the underlying
assumption it states, and vaguely annoying, because it is inaccurate.
Daniel
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