On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 6:57 PM Dmitry Alexandrov <321...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For basic applied feminism (intersectional): > > Whatever it is. My letter was not to discuss the concepts of virginity > within intersectional applied feminism, but remind why we need to be more > sceptical while spreading rumours heard on Twitter. And even more sceptical, > when they are of defamatory nature. >
> > No, her point is fine. > > Sorry, what point? Andreia Gaita was not presenting any point, she presented > _an evidence_, that once upon a time Richard Stallman replied to a some > mysterious question of her: “Oh wait you’re a woman! I don’t answer > questions from women”. > > You repeated this anecdotal evidence as a fact. > > Aaron Wolf point was: she most probably missed the context. (Which she feels > uncomfortable to provide [1]). > > My point was: she most probably simply lied, just as she did while retelling > the St. Ignucius routine, and RMS never said _that_ to her. > > [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/ArneBab/status/1174436677726736385 Given the other well-known 'GIRL' comment on lefty's blog, she is fully believable. Why does not RMS say something? My point was that irrespective of whether she lied or not about the statement, the routine in question is offensive, sexist and triggering. The patriarchal concept of 'virgin' is routinely used by religious people to shame, silence and abuse women. The old geekfeminism wikia page on RMS has enough details. https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/EMACS_virgins_joke https://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com/2009/07/emailing-richard-stallman.html?showComment=1247268813706#c2710654169843897013 Best A Mani Prof.Dr.(Miss) A Mani CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS, IEEE Senior Member, International Rough Set Society Homepage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: https://logicamani.blogspot.in/ Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mani_A sip:girlprofes...@ekiga.net _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
