On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
> Brendan/Coolian wrote:
>
> > >or do you think that forcing porn down people's throats is a good
> > >thing? yes... let's desencitize that 74 year old lady trying to pick out a
> > >nice desktop for the computer a young friend is setting up for her
Okay, Slashdot's getting lower and lower on my personal scale every day.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/23/202252&mode=flat
A brief quote:
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Don't Waste Your Time on Geek Girls
Here you are, an obsessed coder and all that, s
srl wrote:
Okay, Slashdot's getting lower and lower on my personal
scale every day.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/23/202252&mode=flat
A brief quote:
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Don't Waste Your Time on Geek Girls
Here you are, an obsessed coder and a
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Steve Kudlak wrote:
> This seems like silly humour to me. I would to see the original articles, if
> someone is going to present a critique. I don't knowI mean some things seem
more of a composite of Anthro/Women's Studies 316 discussion related to a
few books, in partic
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Steve Kudlak wrote:
> > A woman just like you wouldn't be there for you when you wanted a hug.
> > She'd be obsessively coding or posting on Slashdot herself, and would
> > brush you off when you needed her. What you really want is a woman who
You know what's funny -- This
Consider also the fact that not everyone browsing these themes is an adult.
I have a 9 year old daughter who has been using linux for two years now and
sets up her own gui. So far, she hasn't done anything too incredibly fancy,
but she's learning fast, and eventually she'll want to try some of th
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, TeknoDragon wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Nils Philippsen wrote:
>
> > I don't think it is valid to say that just because s.th. is "culture",
> > that it's right.
>
> likewise it's not valid to refute any cultural mechanism... I see this
> often in religious arguments... an
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> I'm not sure if that's quite right... but it is REALLY easy for the man
> to divorce women (like if they don't bear children) but very difficult
> to go the other way (the man has to be a pretty big bastard).
Kinda depends on what country you look a
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Cat wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Nils Philippsen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
> > > I hope you will also speak out whenever you hear males being sexist -
> >
> > In general yes. Sometimes (depends on if the person put down can handle it
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Vinnie Surmonde wrote:
> > > A woman just like you wouldn't be there for you when you wanted a hug.
> > > She'd be obsessively coding or posting on Slashdot herself, and would
> > > brush you off when you needed her. What you really want is a woman who
>
> I guess I don't se
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:48:53 -0700 (PDT), Vinnie Surmonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You know what's funny -- This artical doesn't really bother me..After
>reading it, I probably woudln't *date* Roblimo, but seeing as he's
>both male and married, this probably wasn't a great fear anyway.
Maybe I
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, srl wrote:
> aha. i think you've hit on something. I kinda find it offensive for
> anyone to more-or-less openly seek someone to be hir
> maintainer-of-all-things-domestic-and-emotional. And, gender politics
> being what they are, it's most often men looking for this from wom
vinnie wrote:
> You know what's funny -- This artical doesn't really bother me..After
> reading it, I probably woudln't *date* Roblimo, but seeing as he's both
> male and married, this probably wasn't a great fear anyway.
yeah, it didn't bother me either, and i think the reason is that it's
compl
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, TeknoDragon wrote:
> The idea of viriginity, for instance, is of apparent utmost importance to
> a great portion of our cultural bretheren (usually males).
...in women, but not in themselves. :)
Fortunately, I'm a widow. I'm exempt from having to be a virgin. :)
> Is it a w
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Lynn Siprelle wrote:
> *snort* this is hysterical. My dh is a telco/router guy and I'm a web
> designer/entrepreneur/programmer/really-just-want-to-be-a-housewife-at-this-poin
> t-but-can't-put-the-damn-mouse-down gal. When we lost our DSL connection
> for two weeks (and thus
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, helen newman wrote:
> this point has really stuck with me. i think in many cases it can be
> wrong, but more importantly i think this point sums up the problem with
> this article. it assumes that all men want need in life is some bimbo
> woman that he cant talk to but cook
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Vinnie Surmonde wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, srl wrote:
> > aha. i think you've hit on something. I kinda find it offensive for
> > anyone to more-or-less openly seek someone to be hir
> > maintainer-of-all-things-domestic-and-emotional. And, gender politics
> > being what t
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:43:02 +0200 (CEST), Nils Philippsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I didn't mean that. If someone wants to belive in a certain religion,
>that's fine. But to shove religion down people's throats whether they
>want it or not is not my thing. That "law/justice positivism"
>(word
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:02:50 -0400 (EDT)
srl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I kinda find it offensive for anyone to more-or-less openly seek someone to be hir
> maintainer-of-all-things-domestic-and-emotional.
Some people *want* that - on both sides. I don't understand it, but some people seem
t
Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
>
> On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Lynn Siprelle wrote:
>
> > *snort* this is hysterical. My dh is a telco/router guy and I'm a web
> > designer/entrepreneur/programmer/really-just-want-to-be-a-housewife-at-this-poin
> > t-but-can't-put-the-damn-mouse-down gal. When we lost our DSL
Hi.
I just thought I'd send out a quick reminder that the Ottawa LinuxChix
chapter has a mailing list. Info on subscribing is available here:
http://www.linuxchix.org/docs/chapters/ottawa.html
I'm not sure whether everyone in the Ottawa area (who is interested) has
subscribed to it yet.
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