[clug] What? There's women on this list! Since when?!

Jack Kelly endgame.dos at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 23:50:15 MDT 2009


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.

-- Jack


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