On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Jenn V. wrote:
>
> 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?
what he means i am not sure, but the poster on oclug that Dan is talking
about is pretty much alone in his statements (though, i didn't read the
entire thread) >
> ".. 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.
> --
> "We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
> This is women's work!"
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>
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