[LAU] [Fwd: Re: Fuck your sexism]

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Louis Gorenfeld
<louis.gorenfeld at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks all for the comments on my grind-rebuttal :)
>
> So, FTR, I do think that the whole schoolgirl fixation out of Japan is
> a little creepy. But I think the specific image in question wasn't too
> egregious, though I see how it could be controversial.
>
> When SxDx mentioned that this is an "almost female-free mailing list",
> I think that actually is a low blow.

That was very nearly a sexually loaded joke :)

> list full of misogynists or something. To my knowledge, there is
> nothing inherent to Linux audio and music which makes it seem like
> some kind of a "good ol' boys club". If anyone does feel that way, I'd
> be curious as to why.

Because the community doesn't openly work towards attracting female
contributors. I'm not kidding you. That's the feminist motto these
days: if you don't want to be a sexist, you have to openly invite
women to participate in your project.

You also can't claim that you already treat male and female
contributors the same way, that would not be sufficient. So you are
become non-sexist by making women a special case contributor. Except
you can't call it that, because it would be sexism :)

FWIW, equal rights and all that is a wonderful thing and very much
worth the effort. But the ways to reach the social equilibrium are not
always nice or logical.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org