RE: [issues] "Female Hackers Battle Sexism [...]"

2000-06-13 Thread Kelda-Anne Sholdice
>I've encountered him online and conversed with him, on several >occasions. Interestingly, his tone on the times he thought I was male >was discernably different from the times he thought I was female It's always funny to see how people treat you subtly differently depending on what gender the

Re: [issues] "Female Hackers Battle Sexism [...]"

2000-06-13 Thread Terri Oda
>I've encountered him online and conversed with him, on several >occasions. Interestingly, his tone on the times he thought I was male >was discernably different from the times he thought I was female It's always funny to see how people treat you subtly differently depending on what gender they

Re: [issues] At what point is it sexism...

2000-06-13 Thread srl
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jenn V. wrote: > srl wrote: > > > Or "if you're really loyal to this company, you'll work 70 hours a > > week," which IMO is a far more common statement and gets aimed > > equally at everyone when it's used. > > I got 'well, you're not married and you don't have children...

Why Work on OS/FS (Was: RE: [issues] "Female Hackers Battle Sexism [...]")

2000-06-13 Thread Fan, Laurel
srl, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > what would you suggest as an alternative? why do you think people > work on open source? I have a vision of a game/social environment/storytelling medium where I can create my own reality, populate it with interesting things and bots, and open it up for people to

Re: [issues] At what point is it sexism...

2000-06-13 Thread Jenn V.
srl wrote: > Or "if you're really loyal to this company, you'll work 70 hours a > week," which IMO is a far more common statement and gets aimed > equally at everyone when it's used. I got 'well, you're not married and you don't have children...' for that one. Jenn V. -- "We're repairing th

Re: [issues] "Female Hackers Battle Sexism [...]"

2000-06-13 Thread Susannah Rosenberg
Snarfblat wrote: > > There was an interesting discussion brought up in this thread > that made me wonder... > > At what point is flirting / sexual attraction / et all perceived > as sexism? What factors indicate whether it is more towards a > sexist annoyance, or an uninvited advance... I perc

Re: [issues] At what point is it sexism...

2000-06-13 Thread srl
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jenn V. wrote: > > "Jenn V." wrote: > > > > > 2. Power. > > > If one party has power over the other - financial, managerial, > > > uni-results, force of personality - then it becomes terribly, > > > terribly awkward for the one without power. > > Force of personality is MEA

Re: [issues] At what point is it sexism...

2000-06-13 Thread Jenn V.
Alexander Sendzimir wrote: > > "Jenn V." wrote: > > > 2. Power. > > If one party has power over the other - financial, managerial, > > uni-results, force of personality - then it becomes terribly, > > terribly awkward for the one without power. > > What do you mean by "force of personality".

Re: [issues] At what point is it sexism...

2000-06-13 Thread Alexander Sendzimir
"Jenn V." wrote: > 2. Power. > If one party has power over the other - financial, managerial, > uni-results, force of personality - then it becomes terribly, > terribly awkward for the one without power. What do you mean by "force of personality". This sounds terribly general. We're all persona

[issues] FAQ posting

2000-06-13 Thread Jenn V.
http://download.sourceforge.net/linuxchix-faqs/issues.html I've quoted the URL for the HTMLised version of the FAQ, rather than the main FAQ. Please note that the internal links are broken, my docbook stylesheet for HTML doesn't seem to understand relative links. I spologise for that. Jenn V

[issues] At what point is it sexism...

2000-06-13 Thread Jenn V.
Snarfblat wrote: > > There was an interesting discussion brought up in this thread > that made me wonder... > > At what point is flirting / sexual attraction / et all perceived > as sexism? There's a couple of factors which - to me - differentiate between flirtation and it not being FUN anymo

Re: [issues] "Female Hackers Battle Sexism [...]"

2000-06-13 Thread Snarfblat
There was an interesting discussion brought up in this thread that made me wonder... At what point is flirting / sexual attraction / et all perceived as sexism? What factors indicate whether it is more towards a sexist annoyance, or an uninvited advance... Is the fact that social advances are tr

Re: [issues] "Female Hackers Battle Sexism [...]"

2000-06-13 Thread Otto
Alexander Sendzimir babbled: :> ...(and at that age we all know what that usually means)... : :Actually, we--being male in this instance--don't. I actually had a very unusual experience growing up. I am female, yet I was one of the guys. Not as in the stereo typical sense that you see in movie