>> 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?
No, it likely means that the vocal people in the LUG are twits. :) I used
to read the OCLUG list semi-regularly and I gave up a while back because I
didn't really want to hear some over-inflated silly people argue, which
happened entirely too regularly for my tastes. :) I never went to a
meeting because of a scheduling conflict, though, so I have no idea if this
posturing continued beyond the list.
*smile* Gives you a nice picture of how happy I was to find linuxchix,
though. It's so much less loud and competative here.
>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.
This is so true. And unfortunately, it's sometimes really nice people who
just have this one blindspot about reality because they aren't exposed to
it quite so often...
-> Terri
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