On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:55:33AM +1100 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jenny Brown (was Gable) wrote:
>
> > To that extent, it's been somewhat helpful, but not as much as
> > I expected. Mainly, I think, it's because I see women asking
> > questions and guys answering... and they're still the experts...
> > It's hard to summarize though because there just hasn't been
> > that much traffic.
Interesting thread to return to.
I went away for a week. Before it, I was remarking that linuxchix
posts seemed to be more than half from men these days. To me, that's
a very recent development, and I've heard the suggestion (and voiced
it myself) that it's not that the women are going away; it's that
men are arriving because it's generally a fairly civilised environment.
> (laughs)
> I've a tendancy to not-answer unless I am absolutely certain I
> know the answer, or there's not been an answer for 12 hours or so.
> So if the guys don't have those hesitations, and other women do
> the same thing I do... that's why it seems to be guys answering.
> Can anyone explain to me why I do that?
I do exactly the same thing. Even when I'm pretty sure, I hedge it
around with "I think.." "On this distro.." "it's possible that.."
These are not particularly self-deprecating; it's because I've
seen too many different things to be entirely happy about generalising
to systems I don't know.
And yes, I have to be damn sure before I speak up in public. The
thought of having it all wrong in the archives with my name on it
is too much. I still feel embarrassed about one thing where I
misunderstood badly, didn't check, and said a pile of stuff that,
if not wrong, wasn't brilliantly right :)
If I just have a -guess-, I mail off-list and ask the person to
mail the list if my guess worked/put them in the right direction. :)
Telsa
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