Re: Respect (was Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian)

2004-03-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > To get back to something *concrete*, would anyone find it sexist if the > phrase was "So easy your secretary or your boss could use it"? This pairs > a stereotypically male and a sterotypically female profession, both > stereotypically clueless. These words are also

Re: Respect (was Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian)

2004-03-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andrew Suffield wrote: > If people address issues rather than personalitites then everything > you have said is completely irrelevant, because they aren't going to > be perturbed by the "speech" pattern of the people they are talking > to, so we can phrase things however we damn well please. You'r

Re: Respect (was Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian)

2004-03-23 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:28:12PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:14:52AM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote: > > AS> The rest of your mail was based on similarly dumb ideas. > > > > Which ideas do I have that are so dumb? > > > That you shouldn't be mean when you don't h

Re: Respect (was Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian)

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:14:52AM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote: > AS> The rest of your mail was based on similarly dumb ideas. > > Which ideas do I have that are so dumb? > That you shouldn't be mean when you don't have to? Yes, that's hippie shit. If you s/shouldn't/don't need to/ then it'

Respect (was Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian)

2004-03-23 Thread Evan Prodromou
> "AS" == Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Me> Within our project, if you consider the most effective DDs*, Me> you're going to also be thinking of the most reasonable, Me> thoughtful, and friendly ones. AS> No, I'd say that's entirely wrong. I'd say that you're be