http://lwn.net/Articles/279895/#Comments
This has probably been discussed already in various places, but I thought I'd point it out here, for posterity. There's a blog entry about doing some simple usability testing of Ubuntu, with the author using their SO as the test person. As it happens, the SO is female, which led to the title "The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment". LWN.net then reported this enforcing the implication that girlfriends are always tech-ignorant. So far, garden-variety low-key sexism that happens everywhere, often without intent. What's interesting, to me, is that the discussion on lwn.net so quickly and strongly took stance against the sexism. Despite a number of people insisting on there not being a problem, the general consensus seems to be that the lwn.net net editor made an error, and he apologized for it, as did the chief editor. That discussion wouldn't have happened four years ago, I'm sure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
