Hmmm... While I am by no means a supporter of gender separation or sexism, I see no harm in that t-shirt. It's obvious to me that the t-shirt is trying to sell Linux, and computing in general, to women. Not call women "some weird subset with these odd sticky out bits". Of course, people are entitled to their interpretation, but I think it's fairly clear that there is no harm intended.
When I served as a missionary for my church, we called each other "missionaries and sisters". It was a long standing joke, that this implied sisters aren't missionaries, yet even the ladies understood it as a joke, and nothing more. I think the shirt is harmless, but that's just my $.02. Thanks, +--------------------------------------------------------------+ |Aaron Toponce _ Join the ASCII Ribbon Campaign | |OALUG President ( ) http://www.asciiribbon.org | |http://www.aarontoponce.org X Against HTML e-mail | |http://www.oalug.com / \ Against proprietary attachments| +--------------Best viewed with a monospace font---------------+ Sarah Hobbs wrote: > Hey all, > > No idea who's behind this marketing decision, but... > > http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/08/20/linux-for-ladies/ > > As discussed in #debian-women earlier...does that mean that ladies are > no longer human beings now? > > [19:15] <seanius> i'll defer to the "ladies" on whether it is or not, > but i would read that line as "because normal linux is too hard for ladies" > [19:18] <liw> hmm... that'd imply that ubuntu's "linux for human beings" > implies normal linux is too hard for humans? > [19:19] <Sharrow> That and the men's shirt says "linux for human beings" > implying that ladies are some weird subset with these odd sticky out bits. > [19:24] <Baby> yup, saw it, it really sucks > <snip> > [19:26] <Baby> well, we're not human beings anymore. I guess :) > [19:26] <Baby> according to Ubuntu at least :P > > > This is important, as it seems to be (unintentionally, i'm sure) > offending half of the world's population, and so therefore half of the > possible candidates who may end up using Ubuntu. > > It's food for thought, at least - please CC the relevant people beyond > this mailing list. > > Hobbsee
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