On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:18:26PM +0000, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 03:07:01PM -0600 or thereabouts, Vinnie wrote: > > That may predate you, too. I remember one person (definetly not you, he > > knows who he is though) who actually asked why women might want to be > > treated equally (or something equally as silly -- I'm sure he'll correct > > me if I'm not remembering closely enough) > > I can definitely remember one or two email addresses whose owners > seemed more interested in explaining why there was no need for > linuxchix to us than just going away or accepting that the lists > existed. "What do you hope to achieve with this? You have it all > wrong" and so on. Some people just make you shake your head. If he thinks that he has it tough, and women have it easy, tell him to put on a skirt and go for a walk at 2 in the morning, hmm? There's a post that's been floating around the 'net for a while about "Why is there a gay pride day, and no straight pride day?" [http://www.kics.bc.ca/~kgp/why.html] -- a personal favourite. To summarize: next time a guy asks you why there's an International Women's day, but no International Men's Day, tell him to give his head a shake and then look around -- every day is Men's Day. Rick, irritable geek -- key CF8F8A75 / print C5C1 F87D 5056 D2C0 D5CE D58F 970F 04D1 CF8F 8A75 Give a person a command, and you feed them for a day; teach a person how to RTFM and you feed them for a lifetime. :Akkana _______________________________________________ issues mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/issues
