2009/9/30 Rayna <rayna...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > I'm new to Debian-women, that's my first posting on the list ;o) > > I agree with plenty of the remarks made here (Eric's, Miriam's ones and so > on). I'd like to addsome critics in a constructive fashion. I find a > woman-focused distribution a bad idea... In other words, creating something > focused on a stereotype of what woman is is so reducing and sexist. Putting > pink or flowers or some 'girly' stuff is so, too. There's no A women's > unique profile, there are as many profiles as there are women in the world. > Creating a distribution orientated to a special human group is admitting > that this group has special needs. That is a biased vision. I'm a woman, my > background isn't in computer science. But I use Debian Sid and Ubuntu and > ArchLinux (as well as I can...). No pink, no flowers, no poneys, no > butterflies. > > If a woman isn't interested in informatics, it's partly because little girls > read books on stupid princess saved by a very clever prince or dumb stuff > from that kind. I'm not really sure that creating something special like > shebuntu will change thet thing. I think that it would be far more > interesting for all of us that some men stop considering us like helpless > children or making complexes when, surprisingly for them, we know more... > <snip>
+1 on that Rayna. Welcome to the group :) Here's a review of the Snow White story for those now wanting to consider fairy tales in a new light http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/forsga.html Regards Lesley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
