From: Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:01:51PM -0700, minae wrote:
> > It seems to go well with the name
> > "Linuxchix" which sounds to me like it's trying to be a hip, catchy
> > young-sounding moniker. Else why not Linux Women?
>
> Actually now that you bring this up, a lot of my feminist friends are
rather
> unable to take the name seriously at all because of the use of the word
'chicks'
> and thought that we must have some formal position on reclaiming
derogatory
> terms.
>
> Has anyone else ever had or encountered issues with the name?
I've heard mixed reaction to all the "grrl power" and other such
reclaimation of "girl", "babe", "chick", etc.
On the other hand, I'm in no position to be critical considering
my e-mail address, the license plates on my car, and at least
one of my web pages ;-)
I don't think it's wrong for women to refer to =ourselves= by
any term we want. But it needs to be =us= refering to =us=,
and not someone else using a term we didn't create or we
don't control.
-- Julie (just another femme grrl jock dyke ...).
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