Well I'm late to this conversation but I entirely agree with what Don has said earlier and here.
On 15/12/10 8:26 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: >> +1 again, though I don't really buy Don's argument that harassment >> doesn't necessarily follow the usual heteronormative roles. In 99.9% >> percent of cases, it probably does. > > This is actually a misconception that occurs occasionally, which often > leads to the marginalization of individuals who are affected by it. In > the US in 2009, 16% of sexual harassment charges in the workplace were > filed by men[1]; an earlier telephone poll in 2008 indicated that half > of sexual harassment reported by males was from males, the other half > from females.[2] One interesting thing about this is that in a community that is as male-dominated as Debian, these figures mean that there would probably be more instances of male-male sexual harassment within Debian than there would be of male-female or any other combination, simply because there are so many more men than women. I think this means there is a genuine need for an anti-harrasment email address that won't make a man feel that he isn't welcome to contact it. Helen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d0ac188.9050...@debian.org
