If you agree with this as I do, then a simple I agree will suffice, sent
in public reply. Then, start doing real work.
If you don't agree, then by all means, waste your's and everyone else's
time, by actually attempting to discuss and disect this email. But those
who really care about
We can't be sure whether this orange-haired person likes to eat
babies or not. He probably does, lock him up.
If I have to make a guess then I do, but I don't pretend it's anything
more than a (possibly educated) guess. If you want to promote some
action based on your guess - go ahead. But
I don't think she's flaky or mentally unstable. I think she
approached a concrete group of people by assuming they would fit a
stereotype she had in mind, and that's a bad thing to do.
Please. Her comments are centred around two premises:
1) That debian contains bullying or aggressive
There is a chronic systemic harrassment in Debian, but I have not seen
women get more of it.
I know I've said this some number of times already, but I'll say it again
in just four lines so it's that much harder to miss.
The problem Helen refers to in the most part is not *overt* sexism. The
Helen said women are likely to be not so confident that their skills
will allow them to survive in an environment like debian, compared to
their male counterparts. And then, her explanation of what that
environment amounted to, was that it was bullying and condescending
to women.
Not
The problem is you are a flake.
$ dict flake
...
4. a person who behaves strangely; a flaky[2] person.
[Colloq.]
[PJC]
...
2: a person with an unusual or odd personality [syn:
{eccentric}, {eccentric person}, {oddball}, {geek}]
...
Your yourself say you
Honestly out of all the flame wars we've had
can you think of any where being a yucky girl was an issue?
I suspect you've missed the point somewhat. AIUI she does not fear that
people will bully her because she's female. She simply fears that
people will bully her (as they bully others, male
I don't honestly give a rats ass about what sexuality a person is, but I get
seriously pissed off when the 'We're a minority, we're special' card gets
pulled.
Whilst I see what you're saying, I fail to see how my post could
possibly be read as pulling the minority card. The quote I gave was
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