How can there /be/ a sexist side?

How can there /be/ a sexist side?

Posted Aug 9, 2005 15:33 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: Getting in touch with the sexist side of open source by bacfarc
Parent article: Getting in touch with the feminine side of open source (NewsForge)

As the old cartoon could have put it, ``On the Internet, no one knows you're a [woman].''

I'm an old enough geezer that I don't care to address people by their given names unless they're good acquaintances. Thus, I open e-mails ``Dear Ms. Foo'' or ``Dear Mr. Bar'', but frequently I don't know which to use. The same goes for coders---who's to know the sex of ``F. Q. Baz''? How can one practice sexism in such a case?

Therefore, either a bunch of contributors are female, but not identified as such, or women choose to act in other areas. I don't see how the Free Software community could influence matters one way or the other.

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