LADs and GALs was Re: [Consortium] linuxaudio abbreviation

[Andrea Glorioso]

iriXx <m at iriXx.org> writes:

> for a long time i felt it was LAD by name, LAD by nature. there are few 
> women on the list, and all of us who have been there have found it 
> difficult to get in to the group. i'm sure this is unintentional - but 
> changing the name would help an awful lot in removing this image.

That's (very   unfortunately)  the   general situation of    women  in
computing.  I  don't  think that changing  a  name is going  to change
long-standing (bad) habits,  but  if it  in some way  can help attract
more female users/developers/writers/whatever, I'm  all for  not using
the term "LAD".

<joking>
On the other hand, think  about those poor guys whose  name is male in
Italy but female in every other part of the world  - we get treated as
females but we need to shave every morning just like males!
</joking>

bye,

andrea