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

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Tue, February 12, 2013 5:58 am, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> On 10.02.2013 21:14, SxDx wrote:
>> Whatever I write would not be convincing. I am an asshole.
>> I accept that.
>>
>> But! maybe the following argument would at
>> least open up your mind on sexism.
>>
>> How did you come to linux? or hacking? or computer science?
>
> my neighbor who is a girl installed for me my first rock linux. she is
> still a hacker, my neighbor and one of my best friends.
>

Just to confirm, Is she a girl or a woman?



> cheers,
>
> doc
>> How does one human being come to that? Is there a special
>> pattern?
>>
>> My bet is: no. It's pure random. At point t in time you
>> don't care, at point t+dt you care and roll on.
>>
>> If this is right, why don't we find 50% of female humans,
>> as in the general population?
>>
>> So there is a problem. You don't see it because you are
>> males. All of you. No female friend to talk to you about
>> what she lives. Dig a bit on the web. Recently several
>> women in tech went public on how they are treated by
>> you, males.
>>
>> That said, I already made my point, I won't pollute that
>> list further. I'll stick to technical stuff. There is no
>> point to fight with people who don't accept there is a problem.
>>
>> Thanks to Bill Gribble for finding better words I'll ever can.
>> I doubt it will be useful though, but that's how desperate I am
>> when there are other human beings involved.
>>
>> Happy music, happy hacking. And to hell with sexism.
>>
>> And Hermann, don't take it personally. I used guitarix for
>> the guitar part.
>> Well, nobody take that personally. It's more a "group behavior"
>> that I see and you don't see because you're in it.
>> Okay, enough noise.
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