Haven't seen anything here on issues in a while, so I thought I'd post
this link.
http://63.111.42.146/cyf/yf_article.asp?ArticleID=7552
The article features/is a discussion between Maura (of maura.com) and
Christine (of maganda.org) about women on the web.
I don't know who these 2 people are,
Just got done with my Thanksgiving week reading for my Gay and Lesbian
Studies class. It was a wonderful book by Daphne Scholinski, "The Last
Time I Wore a Dress."
It's an autobiography chronicling her time spent in mental institutions
diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (as well as family i
> You'd think having a (female) friend named vinnie would cure you of
> this automatic gender assignation
I have been working with a woman in the extended degree program named
"chris". I know she's a woman because I've seen her and dealt with her for
a while, but I can ONLY imagine how unnerving
> By "mechanics of information technology" I suspect they mean hardware.
I'm not so sure... wouldn't saying "mechanics of information technology
and hardware" be redundant, then?
> I only understand hardware at a vague, theoretical level. While it's
> useful to understand what the hardware is
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/04/11/girls.computer/index.html
I'm not sure where my husband got this article, but he sent it my way...
Apparently an AAUW (American Association of University Women) report
indicates that the way programming/computer-oriented courses are taught
is creatin
With girls, I think it is more even between father and mother, though
personally I have found it leans toward the father.
I have a great relationship with my father, he likes to tinker with
things and understand how they work. When he started college in the mid
1970s, he started in computers... u
I agree with that statement.
The comments (at least as of earlier today) were pretty one-sided... in
general, people (or as "people" as slashdot comments get) seem to
perceive linuxchix as a bunch of women sitting around bitching about men
and talking about how we want to be separate. I don't kno
> I'd like just geek.
>
> A chick is a bird.
> Oh, well. I don't really mind. If the thought counts, then the Window Maker
> team is trying and I like that.
The home of these lists is after all 'linuxchix' :o)
I think the WindowMaker team's intentions are good, it's great that they
decided to m
Hmm, I don't think that's quotas... I think it's a good thing (tm). As
Skud said in her article and on this list, one of the best steps to take
is to just plain say "you're welcome, come work on our development team".
Maybe it's because I'm not seeing it all (goes to windowmaker.org), but I
don't
> We don't want to prevent people from legitimately solving the
> problem themselves. But we want /our/ way of doing it protected,
> at least until we've got the reasonable reward for our labout.
> (yeah, 'our'. I count chewing it over with him while theoretically
> watching 'Buffy' to be work.)
>
Robert Kiesling wrote:
>
> Could a person receive a federal grant if they were also in a
> publicly funded university, free or not?
Yes, students can receive federal grants for developing... it's
independent of stature as a student (applying as an *individual* rather
than a part of a *corporat
> The same thing I'd do if I was a struggling college student who is
> developing an OS that has a chance to be in demand: release it as free
> software, and if it's as great as I think it is, I'll have no trouble
> getting a high paying job doing what I want to (at a secretive chip
> startup, per
It has been said in the slashdot thread that amazon might not allow such
comments in the author comments section, and/or RMS hasn't bothered
doing it to all of his own books that are listed there (and there are
quite a few).
Personally, I don't think it's worth it to boycott amazon... but rather
It's a pretty huge part of our EECS (http://www.eecs.wsu.edu) program. A
whole 300 level undergraduate course devoted to it (one you would
probably take in your third or fourth semester in the program), and
those concepts are used throughout your undergrad "career" fairly
extensively. (especially
whew... guess I was just thinking big ;o)
-nicole
> > Still, 49 men and 1 woman is pretty off balance...
> >
> > I don't know the percentage of women in the linux world, but I'd bet
> > it's more than 2%.
>
> I think at the last survey it was actually about 1%. Still, some of us are
> doing our
Still, 49 men and 1 woman is pretty off balance...
I don't know the percentage of women in the linux world, but I'd bet
it's more than 2%.
-nicole
Robert Kiesling wrote:
>
> Nope, sorry.
>
> Andrea Archangeli is listed there with all of the guys. She's
> the architect behind the 2.2 kernel'
> Hmm. good point. And both of those are things that everyone wants to
> brutally bludgeon to death with a very blunt instrument.
>
> -Ian (could actually tolerate an Office "assistant" if it was Cartman)
Bob had a cute logo (I still have a microsoft bob hat somewhere around
here) but that was a
J B wrote:
>
> Those chevrons and expandable menus are supposed to adapt to keep the most
> commonly used items available. If you do not like it...you can disable it
> from preferences. But if you notice, use on item that is not on the main
> menu (under the chevrons), and the rest of the dropdo
> the whole thing wasn't resolved until two years ago when micros~1 invested
> $150 million in apple and committed to developing over the next 5 years as
> many releases of office for mac as for windows, in exchange for which apple
> agreed to make explorer the default browser installed with MacOS
lots of snippage in here...
> > It's cobbled together from pieces they bought and modified, or outright
> > copied.
>
> Welcome to the commercial version of opensource :)
Last I checked, open source people don't rip off others' code, stick it
in their own product, and charge out the ass for it
> There are all my opinions Steve K=Kudlaks chromexa@mry )@) sistrinution without
> Comoros; use emvpitrsaged...
> Hey prep feral witty Mr. do rot.
>
> Jab FUn,
What language IS this? :o)
-nicole
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
> A terminology suggestion: "gender" is usually acknowledged to be a social
> construction, whereas "sex" is usually the word for anatomy. So, for
> example, someone may have a "male" sex, but have the gender "man".
Ahh better terms, thank you. :o)
> Note that this isn't a one-to-one mapping; f
> Being in aancient days" that as a biologists(bio or bo for short) some of it
> sounded pretrty shakey. Awful had to project bird behavior to humasnas and
> with pick your specoees. Chimps and Bobonanos are top faves d3epending on
> your views. Discovery channel stuff is ovtern biologically skewe
> I did the gender and race ones, and scored a moderate preference for
> black, which surprises the hell out of me because I am personally
> conscious of a moderate dislike/distrust of black people, or at least
> black men (black women don't bother me as much generally), and a
> strong association
> I found out that I, with 3% of the people who took the test, had a moderate tendancy
>to
> associate females with science. Not *too* big a surprise since I've been
> good and brainwashed with female-friendly science programs, although it'd be
> nice if I could say I had no associations.
I had
Sorry if this gets sent twice. Netscape crashed just as I hit "send".
Originally, I accidentally sent the message to myself ;o)
Original Message
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:52:08 -0800
From: Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Penguin Chaos
To:
I love it when I send mail to myself ;o)
Original Message
From: Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Penguin Chaos
To: Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [issues] alienation (was: Places, issues, etc)
> Couldn't find anything
> > There was a great documentary on the TV/TS lifestyle on the Discovery
> > channel (it just ended and I am sure it will be repeated).
>
> I'm going to have to make a point of watching it.
According to my http://www.tvguide.com/listings it will be repeated
tonight at 2:00 AM PST. It is called
> Kelly (who understands alienation better than anyone has any right
> to...)
There was a great documentary on the TV/TS lifestyle on the Discovery
channel (it just ended and I am sure it will be repeated).
An interesting experience was brought up at the end: a male to female
post-op was working
> Roblimo posted an article on /. with advice for lonely guys about how to
> find a woman. This has drawn a variety of responses, some of them
> complaining about its attitude toward women. At first blush, it seems
> that most of those comments were written by men. I thought I'd ask some
> wome
> I apologize, but I'm not getting into a pissing contest with you. I am
> stating what I think...If that makes me "stupid" then so be it. I doubt I
> would take advice from someone named "Teknodragon". My name's Brendan,
> talk to me when playtime is over.
Wasn't it you that said in another m
> I already pointed this out and was promptly ignored. Possibly because it
> made sense and didn't give anyone room to argue annoying "I'm an oppressed
> minority in a hard, hard world" points.
Check again. There is no adult section. Someone else pointed that out,
but you seem to have ignored it
> >Perhaps. But after you hear "women can't do xx" (where xx is usually
>
> This is called "transference". Who the hell has said anything about women
> not being able to do things? We're talking about themes, and scantily-clad
> people in such, NOT your built-up angst over somethign random.
We
> That's mostly widows or divorced women (IIRC a muslim in countries like
> Iran(sp?), Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan can divorce from his wife just by
> speaking it out three times, can someone please yell "Middle Ages"?).
I'm not sure if that's quite right... but it is REALLY easy for the man
to d
> How is this allowed to happen? I realize no one wants to go out and get
> themselves shot,
> and the women are limited in what they can do to help themselves if they
> aren't allowed
> to leave the house, but are all the men just standing by, feeling that
> it doesn't concern
> them? Don't the
> Why does everything in the screenshot HAVE to be about the theme? Isn't
> the purpose of a screenshot to show what the theme looks like while being
> used, rather than what it looks like with a bunch of apps and images put
> there because they relate to the theme? Apps and images that you may no
> I'm really starting to wonder if people are just being WAY too thin
> skinned.
Perhaps. But after you hear "women can't do xx" (where xx is usually
something technical or "male-oriented") or something similar, you start
to get more offensive than defensive, finding the problem before the
proble
> Well I have seen that sort of thing in the collegiate atmosphere. As in Dorm
> Rooms, and it was weird it seemed in California to concentrate in systems,
> not according to sex as much. It went up if you went to the State College
> system, and less in the UC System. Now I am "globalizing a bit"
> I find that to be a rather sexist remark!
>
> *smile*
> God, I can't stand people who just want to pretend they're as PC as
> possible. We need more nekkid men to even things up. No problem here.
neither theme has nekkid anything...
the keanu theme only shows his face... and the duchovny th
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