On Thu, 7 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Every time the issue of women in computing comes up in slashdot, the
> comments from the male geeks fall into two categories:
>
> 1. female geeks are lightweights and don't code obsessively enough
> 2. I wish more females geeks were socially/sexually
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Naomi Hospodarsky wrote:
> I am fully apalled. This sort of thing in the Linux/computer world has
> been bugging me a lot lately. I really resent a lot of the advertisements,
> etc. that use "beautiful" women as vehicles for selling the computer
> culture. ARGH! Perhaps s
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The trick is, the commitment doesn't come from everyone. It certainly doesn't
> come from clueless HNGs (horny net geeks).
> It /does/ come from many of the older, wiser, more sensible members of the
> community, both male and female.
Okay, totally
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Brendan/Coolian wrote:
> I can respect your rant, but like most things in this life that cannot be
> changed, something my grandmother said seems to ring true:
It sure can't be changed if no one tries.
> "Just deal with it."
> What does it matter that you're a woman?
> I k
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, CaroLyn Schneider wrote:
> That's what it (pornography) comes down to for me - it's freedom of speech.
> Very very important concept. Let's hang on to it.
But no one said anything about censorship yet!
aregh
There's a difference between bringing up 'maybe it would be bette
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Brendan/Coolian wrote:
> Besides, define 'adult'.
Well, I believe we already have a working definition, since we have
'adult' themes like we have 'SF' themes, etc..
If you like, we can define the particular pictures *I* am going off about
right now, we can say something a
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Rikki McGinty wrote:
> uhm, not that this issue isn't fascinating, but is it really that relevant
> to this mailing list? it's gotten very far away from anything Linux-related.
hmm..the issues list is for issues related to linux and being women in the
boys club, so I think w
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Laurel Fan wrote:
> Hm. I haven't really noticed this, but it might just be because I don't
> look for themes, and don't often view screenshots. So I decided to do a
> little unscientific experiment.
what struck me is that every time I wander over there (which is rarely)
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Brendan/Coolian wrote:
> Man, some people are as boring as a quilting circle. Just categorize the
You've obviously never been to some of the quilting cirlce's I've been
> damn themesNo one can take exception to seeing anything they don't want
> to see then. Issue cl
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Jernej Zajc wrote:
> Warning: a very long post indeed.
heh. I'm glad to know I'm not the only person prone to those :)
> I'm not sure if it has to be inviting to everyone. Nothing
Hmm..maybe inviting is the wrong word -- how about 'not hostile'?
(BTW, ingrid, I don't mean
it's weekly world news, isn't that synonymous?
:)
Vinnie
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Blackjax wrote:
> http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1476.html
>
>
> I certainly hope this is a joke.
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
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--
Reality is a formality, an agree
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
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
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Simon Britnell wrote:
> be there, but couldn't see a way to cut the emotion, so I just labelled
> it "hazardous content" and left it.
For what it's worth, I thought it was a fair way of handling the
situation. My definition of flaming includes the attack being redirected
at
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, J B wrote:
> Not in my house
heh. in my house the female *always* does the housework
okay, so I live alone.. (well, with a female cat, but she *never*
helps :) )
> My SO and I share housework equallyor I do it while she is off running
> with the kids.
>
> And my
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, J B wrote:
> I was always taught that a woman's place was wherever she wanted to beof
> course my mother was one of the first feministshe had the picture of the
> woman peeing in the urinal on her bathroom wall in the mid 70's
exactly
Vinnie (who can pee in a
Okay, I'm dropping threads all over the place, I promise sometime next
week I'll get around to picking them up :) (something about one concert,
one machine room and a plane ticket to philidelphia all in one week)
but has anyone noticed the poll?
I'd be annoyed, if I weren't so busy
(what I w
I'm beginning to wonder if *slashdot* is trolling
no, I'm (semi) serious
this poll, roblimo, the quotes...
/. is just so not amusing me this week (and most of the geeks I know irl
read it, though we all tend to filter out anything below 2 or so...which
means I don't read my own comments [I hav
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> I have to wonder how many women have been selected as moderators on
> Slashdot.
it's a semi-random/karma thing...I get mod every so often..more when I
meta-moderate regularly (which I quit doing because I feel like if I mod
then that means I have t
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
> For better or for worse, I don't think it's legal to do so. This was
> discussed heavily by Webgrrls a couple of years ago, and the conclusion that
> was reached was that we, ourselves, could be sued for discrimination. This
> applies only to the U
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (Same way I expect the skin that's falsely called 'yellow' to be over
> Oriental-type features, and 'white' to be over Caucasian shapes.)
> the plumbing system being 'wrong', or noone having vegemite, but not
> that. You know?
Yeahyou're not t
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not sure that classifying people further is the answer. Reclaiming
> 'person' - or some other gender-neutral identification - might be an
> answer. But having studied stereotyping, I don't think that's quite an
> answer either - people stereoty
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> When I stated I'm a stupid male.. I ment that in terms that I still have
> much to learn... as I think we all do... ohh and I'm stupid in terms of
> not being able to express myself clearly to this list :)
in other words you're stupid, and you're male, and th
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> I don't think microsoft should be punnished for being a sucessful
> company... even if it blow up a few compeditors...
you know what I think sucks -- that the government creates this protected
class called a 'corporation', and then folks complain when it puts
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> Ohh.. on the contrary... before I try to figure out in my head how equal
> humanity is to be achived.. it's helpful to find out if it's nessary to
> begin with... the best people to ask such a question to are usualy the
> people fighting for it.
a
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> how exactly is a corporation "protected" as a class?
I misstated (I'm trying to do too much this morning..sorry) --
Corporations aren't protected, they protect people -- specifically the
people who make and implement the 'corporate' decisions -- i.e. if I,
Vi
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> I hardly consider the tenique to be unique.. mind you.. I've been reading
> atlas shrugged lately.. she is definatly one who works everything from the
> ground up... which is how I like things :) even If I use my own "stop gap
> trees sometimes :) )
Not argui
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> They came up with an operating system that would run on intel based
> hardware... that people would want to run the applications they also
> wanted to run.
you mean they bought an OS that the guy who wrote it now regrets
writing...and the rest of your senten
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> If a corporation breaks a law.. what would you like to see happen... going
> for an extreme here... if microsoft hires an assasan to kill Linus.. what
> should happen?
How about the actual people behind the decisions are punished? Jail time,
personal fines (a
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> I was asking for a personal viewpoint.. not what the DOJ or a judge said..
Illegal is not an opinion -- illegal is a fact
morals and ethics can be debated..laws exist
> Ahhh I'm guessing VAlinux systems must have either signed the agreement or
> are going to
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> If OS/2 was marketable enough of a product... it wouln't have had to be
> dumpted... however Microsoft's marketing unfortunatly won... I'm surprised
> your being so defensive of IBM... if any company could be acused of being
> strong armed against compeditors.
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> The problem here is no one wrote anything for it.. and it wasn't
> everything it claimed to be... and (for me atleast) confusing to navigate
> around...
it could run most windows apps, and anything with a gui is confusing for
me..interface is a personal issue
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> laws are subject to interpretation
yes. but you (and I) are not lawyers (which is not to say that we are
completely incompetent to judge, but *is* to say that our opinions
aren't the really important thing here)..plus a lot of this is not
grey area stuff...I
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> well trade press seem to think either A> microsoft will be limited to
> developing it's own tech.. or B>broken into pieces ala MaBells
hey..what..you mean nothing about code reviews?
> These are MY arguments thank you very much... why would I do otherwise?
it's only partly because of the cost (btw, this is getting really off
topic, perhaps it should migrate to grrltalk?) -- in my experience,
doctors don't help or make things worse about as often as they make things
better. This might not be true for *really* serious diseases (but then
again, it mig
oops, I should probably check threads next time :P
(still, the point stands, since you *were* using microway as an example,
earlier. but I think I'll shut up now, since I really am sick of trying to
explain this)
Vinnie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> microway (www.microway.com) has good prices, good hardware.. though they
> focus mostly on alpha based systems
out of curiousity, which part of intel compatible don't you understand?
Vinnie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
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