Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:59:57PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > I think there's something sexist there--not in you, but in her. If > > there is any truth to the notion that men are better at being bullied, > > then I think it is only because men get bullied more and have had to > > learn to deal with it. > > This looks to me like a gross overgeneralization. Furthermore, it's a > rather dismissive overgeneralization (since it is, in essence, a claim > that no other information exists, relevant to this context).
As I said, "if there is any truth to the notion that men are better at being bullied". I suspect there is not really much truth to that. And I agree completely that it would be a gross overgeneralization. Helen's complaint seemed to be: "I don't know much about Debian, but I know they'll be mean to me, because they're boys". I think her complaint is very poor. But I agree quite a lot with some of the other things people have said here that Debian *does* have a problem about mysogyny, and I think we should try if we can to figure out some ways of dealing with it. > I also believe it to be a false overgeneralization -- for example, women > tend to get significantly stronger negative feedback for being assertive > than men do. This is certainly true. I don't think, however, that it's connected to bullying.
