Unless someone indicates otherwise, on the internet, we are all gender-anonymous. There could possibly be more women involved in F/OSS than is assumed (none?). The default assumption here, anyway, is that everyone involved is male. Somehow every comment I post with any sort of gender reference is replied to with the assumption that I am male. Last time I checked, I was fairly certain that I was a woman.
Personally, I am detracted from Women-specific IT/programming/OSS/etc groups, if only for the fact that because they exclude men, it is allready a guaranteed smaller base for information. That just does not make sense. There are other factors making me wary of such groups, but after much thought on it, I have not been able to come up with a specific description of what bothers me about it. Most likely it's allready been ingrained in my head that things designated toward women are somehow of a lesser status, or dumbed-down.
Anyway, us women are amongst you, maybe you just have to stop assuming that we are guys.
It seems like they've overlooked that many people can tell when there is something that they cannot remember.
There are so many holes in my memory of my childhood that it is extremely disconcerting- and these are very minor things, like learning to read and taking five years of ballet (five years! And I don't remember a bit of it!) I know these things happened, yet I do not remember them. It makes me fearful of whatever else I also might not remember.
Three weeks ago, I was drugged and raped. I remember every bit of it. Somehow, I was lucky enough to have the strength to deal with in the immediate. Others are not that lucky, and they have to deal with it at a later time, causing them many many problems along the way. My heart goes out to those suffering from PTSD. We do not need a pill to induce that suffering upon those who might have a chance to escape it.
Right... Which is why I now refuse to date any guy who isn't at least five years older than me. Especially guys who are in IT. From my experience, many tech guys mature even slower than non-tech guys...
It actually seems that they are trying to tap in to it (my dad just got transferred to their ink jet division). However, from everything I've heard about their higher-ups... the whole company is doomed anyway.
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Yeah, the first time I saw an ad for that movie, I thought someone had made a horror film about Intel. Wouldn't be too far off, from my experience.
the lead singer would spread peanut butter on his naked chest while cutting himself with a broken bottle on stage
As punk as that may be, I think he was copying Iggy Pop.
sorry.. i have a tendency to cause that.
Unless someone indicates otherwise, on the internet, we are all gender-anonymous. There could possibly be more women involved in F/OSS than is assumed (none?). The default assumption here, anyway, is that everyone involved is male. Somehow every comment I post with any sort of gender reference is replied to with the assumption that I am male. Last time I checked, I was fairly certain that I was a woman.
Personally, I am detracted from Women-specific IT/programming/OSS/etc groups, if only for the fact that because they exclude men, it is allready a guaranteed smaller base for information. That just does not make sense. There are other factors making me wary of such groups, but after much thought on it, I have not been able to come up with a specific description of what bothers me about it. Most likely it's allready been ingrained in my head that things designated toward women are somehow of a lesser status, or dumbed-down.
Anyway, us women are amongst you, maybe you just have to stop assuming that we are guys.
Hey! Some of us do both!
as a woman... i really hope this is satire.
i know i'm kind of weird, but to me, linux is far, far more intuitive than windows or osx.
though... the clippy bit definitely indicated satire. thank jeebus.
thank you!
extremely. non-consentual is still non-consentual.
exactly.. as a consistantly dehydrated masochist.. i'm really wondering how there would be ethical issues..
It seems like they've overlooked that many people can tell when there is something that they cannot remember.
There are so many holes in my memory of my childhood that it is extremely disconcerting- and these are very minor things, like learning to read and taking five years of ballet (five years! And I don't remember a bit of it!) I know these things happened, yet I do not remember them. It makes me fearful of whatever else I also might not remember.
Three weeks ago, I was drugged and raped. I remember every bit of it. Somehow, I was lucky enough to have the strength to deal with in the immediate. Others are not that lucky, and they have to deal with it at a later time, causing them many many problems along the way. My heart goes out to those suffering from PTSD. We do not need a pill to induce that suffering upon those who might have a chance to escape it.
i will happily claim my right to be unhappy, thank you very much.
Right... Which is why I now refuse to date any guy who isn't at least five years older than me. Especially guys who are in IT. From my experience, many tech guys mature even slower than non-tech guys...
discretion.. for those who feel guilty about responding to advertisments.
It actually seems that they are trying to tap in to it (my dad just got transferred to their ink jet division). However, from everything I've heard about their higher-ups... the whole company is doomed anyway.