LADs and GALs was Re: [Consortium] linuxaudio abbreviation

Brian Thomson wrote: cool idea... its also a word for 'praise' as in Laud and honor.... in old hymn songs. and its a bit like 'luid' which is loud in Dutch - 'geluid' meaning sound.... back to the word 'LAD'... it is actually a type of offensive, male chauvinist youth in England - thats the definition of the word in its modern usage. laddishness is the beer-swilling, foul mouthed type that has a contempt of women or a tendency to treat them as an object. GAL isnt much different i'm afraid, it still implies a little girl with not much intelligence. when i first joined LAD i found it very difficult to fit in, as a woman. some of you may remember the moment when i switched to using the name 'iriXx' instead of my real name, miriam, and got instant respect - the attitude and replies to my posts changed overnight. this is the reality of being a woman in the computer world. but what was even funnier was the day i outed myself, by correcting someone that iriXx was a 'she', not a 'he'. you could have heard a pin drop. 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. thanks m~ / iriXx -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjamin Franklin |\ _,,,---,,_ ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ HTTP 503: Too Busy |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL .::. www.iriXx.org .::. www.copyleftmedia.org.uk .::.