Em Dom, 2004-12-05 Ãs 02:53 +0000, Andrew Suffield escreveu: > > I can't see why. The whole free software concept brings an idea of > > giving equal oportunities to everyone. > > How is it "equal opportunities" to say: "You can't do that unless you > also find a woman who's willing to do it as well"?
That's exactly what I was trying to say: it is not ... > > That does not solve the problem, but makes it pretty easy to solve. > > The problem doesn't exist. There is no absence of opportunity > here. There is only absence of action from some parties. ... and this is quite close to what I think. What I mean is: hot-babe is still male-oriented, because no one stepped up to do the female-oriented counter-part. > If somebody was saying "We can have pictures of naked girls in the > archive, but not naked men" then you *might* have a valid point. But > they aren't. Exactly. What I was trying to demonstrate is sexism would live in not giving a chance for anyone (not only women, why not gay people, for example, or straight man who do appreciate the human body regardless of gender, as I do?) to have their own sexual orientation or esthetics satisfied. My point, now turning the discussion to the question of offensiveness is that we should not try to impose moral values in a community that is so diverse in cultures and nationalities... I somewhat agree with Manoj, though I don't know how to draw the "legality" line, as I'm not satisfied with using USA as the "standard". That's what we have for now, though, we need to think about alternatives. > Just because you elect not to engage in an action doesn't mean you can > claim that nobody else should engage in that action. Not even under > some misguided notion of "equality". Just to finish the email... yes, you cannot force people into taking actions, even more in a volunteer organization. This does not mean that some universal values should not be defended and fostered in the community. Values like freedom and equality. See ya, sorry for the delay, I was on the beach =D -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org>