On 14 January 2012 11:27, Dennis K <dennisk@netspace.net.au> wrote:
With all due respect, I think these articles which talk about sexism and racism still existing in some 'underlying' manner are nothing more than puff pieces designed to justify the livelihoods of people who making a living combating this.
By maintaining there is a problem, you can then still rely on money coming in to 'fight it'. I will bet London to a brick on the fact that as long as someone will get published, paid or recognised for this sort of thing, there will be people writing about how we still got a bit of a way to go.
With all due respect, women all over free software communities have recounted their experiences of sexism for years and years, and for you to treat it as an academic construct or a thought experiment perpetuated by academics merely to uphold their livelihood is.........not respectful at all. This is also covered by section 1.2 "What problem? Sexism is dead!" in the HOWTO initially posted. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/x28.html#AEN41 If it was written today it would undoubtedly contain a link to http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents . regards Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/