than males will
understand sexism because a female person more likely falls a victim to
it). Some people might consider your statement a rather sexist one, don't
you think? Just because a relevant share of males are chauvinist pigs,
this doesn't mean that this is true for all males.
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Nils Philippsen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, ae wrote:
> >
> > > Explaining sexism to a male is really difficult, though gay/bi men will
> > > sometimes understand if they are gorgeo
. I just bashed
about a statement that could be considered sexist -- if males should be
careful about what they say, females should, too. I guess, I've not been
careful enough, hm?
Nils
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own pits here, I think (wrt putting words in someone
else's mouth): I said "a relevant share" and it was my opinion I
expressed, I didn't want to lay it in anyones mouth except my own. IMO 1
out of 10 or 20 (this is a random guess, no studies to back it, yadda)
_is_ a relevant
I don't think it is valid to say that just because s.th. is "culture",
that it's right.
Nils
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; i
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 mecha
t I have a problem with e.g. that our
constitution states religious freedom in our constitution when in fact
Christian churches are supported and others are hindered (not much but
one can see it).
> That, however, does not make some of the behaviour toward women in such
> cultures correct, nor d
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
ry
software. For proprietary software companies, the incentive is to get
people to buy something. My incentive is to get people to grab my software
and to actually use it and like it.
Because Linux consists of many modules, each (more or less) optimized for
its task, it can be very well tweaked t
"had to learn for the exam".
Being really educated doesn't mean having attended to courses in a special
field. The unis and colleges don't have a monopoly on education, or in
other words, they can't teach you things that you can't learn in a
different way (reading doc
, or academia for that matter.
Never heard of an Eur. Ing. I only know the (German) Dipl. Ing. and the
varios Bachelors and Masters. UK isn't really Euro-land -- Britain decided
to keep the Pound instead.
Nils
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essarily neuter) "one" and "one's". Until lately
I wrote "(s)he" and "her/his" but this breaks the reading flow.
Nils
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pronoun.
> (That died a natural death.)
>
> Still, I like the Finnish approach to the perceived threat of messy old
> English (the ultimate pidgen language, btw) taking over the world. There
> is a move afoot up there to reconver that position for Latin....
Unlikely to succeed. Can
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