On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:24:09PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > One way I treated one of the women on this list (you? Emma?) differently > is like I said earlier; I posted something like "Cool! A woman and she's > a geek! <slobber slobber slobber>". It was inappropriate, sure, but even > at that, I _never_ would have posted that in response to a guy's post.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200301/msg04538.html It wasn't that bad. Take a look at the context. I knocked my own gender in jest and someone followed suit. Nothing wrong with that (in my mind anyway). I don't /remember/ ever being offended by the comment. I'm pretty sure I thought it was funny and typical of many encounters I've had with male geeks face-to-face. The big difference was that I got the answer *before* the slobbering and incoherence struck. ;) Did I send you a rude response off-list or something? I can't remember and I can't find anything in my outbox. If it's any consolation the email sits (un-edited) in my "helpful emails about linux partitioning" folder. As long as there is productive discussion I certainly don't mind people acknowledging I'm female--especially if I'm going to bring it up first! It is, after all, who I am! (I'm also willing to admit that I do little dances and cheer for my students when their code works--especially for the female students. But I'm only willing to admit to this kind of thing in brackets.) emma -- Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
