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

Francis James Whittle fudje at grapevine.net.au
Sat Jul 11 21:04:11 MDT 2009


Those filthy comrades are stealing our women!

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.

This post brought to you from the campaign against marginalisation of
white Anglo-Saxon males.

On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 11:36 +1000, David Howe wrote:
> What!! There are comrades and women on this list? Together??? omfg...
> 
> Lana Brindley wrote:
> > 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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