Dan McGarry wrote:
>
> Tonight someone posted the <cough> news that he had read at playboy.com that
> there was a group called LinuxChix here in Ottawa. I allowed myself to get
> ensnared in a bit of a flame-fest when someone proclaimed their
> mystification at why such intelligent women should want to split the local
> linux community, depriving themselves of all the benefits of the LUG.
Split the linux community? Deprive themselves of the local LUG?
Does he mean that people in Linuxchix aren't allowed in the LUG?
".. and it is against the rules. For any one cat to belong both to that and
to the Joint Superior Schools .."
Cats, 'Bustopher Jones in White Spats'
> I should have know better.
Mmmhmm. IMO (and YMMV) some people can't perceive that there is still
discrimination/are still offputting environments/whatever. And I don't know
any way to explain to them /how/ these exist. Especially since I can often
see causes in their own actions. Sigh.
Jenn V.
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn
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