Mike Beattie wrote: > I'll only apologise to those that are unable to take such things with > a grain of salt.
No need to apologise, really. The talk was probably intended to be amusing and the overall tone was light-hearted. But I want you to realize that this puts people off. I even felt like walking out of the talk. So did people like Mako or Enrico, as they both told me later, IIRC. On a side note, other real life examples. - At Debconf @ Toronto, BDale used grannies as examples of the worst kind of clueless users Debian should aim at. Susan happens to be a DD and a grannie, so he stood corrected, but refused my proposal to use Bush as an example for that :-) - On a talk at Madrid, Miguel de Icaza who is a close friend of mine BTW, used female secretaries as examples of clueless users. Again I am not angry, not accusing anyone. I only want to point out the kind of discourse that we all have to avoid in order to be more gender friendly. -- .''`. Yo también estaba en esos trenes. I was also on those trains : :' : `. `' Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux (Sid 2.4.20 Ext3) `- www.amayita.com www.malapecora.com www.chicasduras.com
