[clug] Announcing: Canberra Google Girl Geek Dinner #3

[Jack Kelly]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Paul Wayper <paulway at mabula.net> wrote:
> On 10/09/09 23:40, Jack Kelly wrote:
>>
>> Thought Experiment: take the original post and pipe it through
>> sed -e 's/male/female/g' -e 's/Men/Women/g' -e 's/girl/guy/g' -e
>> 's/Girl/Guy/g'
>>
>> Consider the effect of such a post to the list. Would it make the
>> community feel more inclusive? I conjecture that it would not.
>
> Congratulations!  You've just failed the "positive discrimination is not
> negative discrimination" test!

Congratulations! You've hit the dead horse and it's still not moving! :-)

I'm assuming you either get the digest (and are working through it) or
you haven't checked your email at all today, because my above claim
was pretty quickly dismantled by about 5 different people in the posts
following.

(
Also, your analogy isn't accurate. Anyone can buy/hire a bike and go
on a ride. Anyone can download a compiler and get into programming. I
conjecture that generalising that approach to the GGDs won't work.
Your conclusion is still correct, but your reasoning is wrong.

Try a car analogy, because all long-winded discussions need one. It's
a rule or something.
;-)
)

-- Jack