"A. Mani" <a.mani....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 5:36 AM Aaron Wolf <wolft...@riseup.net> wrote: >> On 2019-09-23 4:39 p.m., A. Mani wrote: >>> In one keynote, RMS's response to a question was "Oh wait you're a woman! I >>> don't answer questions from women." Furthermore there are ill-informed >>> statements on feminism in RMS's blog -- they mean RMS is still a slave of >>> the patriarchy. >> >> That question response quote is so extreme, the most reasonable assumption >> is that it was said as a facetious joke. I have never encountered that >> anecdote before, so I have no context. But taking it at pure face value >> makes no sense to me whatsoever. > > That talk was terribly bad: > https://twitter.com/sh4na/status/1174034117077413889
Given how she contrived to paraphrase the ‘Holy Virgin of Emacs’ jest two messages below [0]: “This was about five minutes before he declared that it was the sacred duty of all male fans of emacs in the audience to take the virginity of women. On stage during the keynote” I would not take seriously even a word of that woman. She seems to be of that kind who listens to a human, but hears voices in her head. What are your reasons to believe her? (For those who unfamiliar with St. Ignucius sketch, the relevant part before feminists compel Dr. Stallman to censor himself might read as: “And we also have the cult of the virgin of Emacs. The virgin of Emacs is any female who has not yet learned how to use Emacs. And in the church of Emacs we believe that taking her Emacs virginity away is a blessed act” [1]. Feel the difference.) > Strangely this was not stated on Linuxchix website and elsewhere. Hmm... Maybe it is not stated there, elsewhere and anywhere besides a microblog of some RMS-hater [2] because this is just another piece of libel? [0] https://twitter.com/sh4na/status/1174044476022636546 [1] https://youtu.be/25ejlP0uWeI [2] “Finally, FINALLY, people put enough pressure for the @fsf to get rid of Richard Stallman. It would have been awesome if all the decades of him being the absolute worst would have been reason enough to get rid of him before, but hey, at least it happened in my lifetime.” — https://twitter.com/sh4na/status/1174030740037754882
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