Hi, Mary, and everyone else,
> In my opinion, technical issues are largely non-gender oriented (kernel
> compiling is the same be you boy or girl). It's just that women may be
> turned off my the locker-room stuff of RTFM, vi vs emacs, pointless
> flamge.
...or to be condescended to or treated to a barrage of sexist comments. This is
why most Linux-using women I know are no longer on our local LUG mailing list,
or even participating in that group. It's gotten better with time, from what
I understand, but since there is techtalk, and I can usually get my questions
answered there, and since I don't feel any sense of community with those guys,
I don't feel the need to try and find out what the LUG is like now that a year
and a half plus has passed since I unsubscribed.
I point newbie men I know to techtalk. Why? They get polite answers. That
sadly isn't true on many of the "mixed" gender list. I put mixed in quotes
because, to me, 97% male isn't a "mix" to me.
Just my two drachmas worth...
-Caity
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