On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant<jeanmic...@sequans.com> wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >>>> >>>> Robert Dailey: >>>> >> >> [...] >> >>> >>> It's a figure of speech. And besides, why would I want programming >>> advice from a woman? lol. Thanks for the help. >>> >> >> Sorry, Robert, simply not acceptable. Whether designed to be funny or >> not it's the kind of inane remark I would be really happy never to see >> again. >> >> The problem is that we can't just "let these things go by" all the >> time (even though we aren't discussing a major crime here). If we do >> that it encourages (at best) an atmosphere of complacency and a >> feeling that it's OK to demean people in Python forums. I'd really >> like to see those *not* get a hold. >> >> regards >> Steve >> > > Did you read the original post (this is an old one) ? Because quoting a joke > out of its context is totally unfair.
Unfair to whom? In any event, the context here seems to be a mixture of Guy Fawkes trivia and general disapproval of sexist remarks on c.l.p, so I don't see this comment as "out of context". (For the record, I use "guys" to refer to groups of people regardless of their gender. I also use "dude" to refer to people regardless of their gender. The only person who has taken offense to this is my mom. "I am not a dude." But she means she's not a cowboy, not not a male.) (Uh, she is, in fact, female.) > Anyway the hysteria that is surrounding this thread is just amazing. I'm > waiting for more. I don't feel hysterical, only appalled. The OP used a common slang term, someone mentioned that the term implies a group of males when in fact the group being addressed is mixed gender, and the OP replied that it was "just a figure of speech". So far, so good. But then the OP made a sexist "joke". He was called on it and issued a rather gracious apology, but then he dropped another sexist turd right in the middle of his otherwise model apology. I won't speak for anyone else, but I was appalled. Sexism, racism, homophobia, religious intolerance, etc., all stem from a fundamental forgetfulness of our Unity in God (as I would put it) and this is perhaps the single greatest cause of human misery. We are one family. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
