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Gender values
Gender values
Posted Mar 27, 2008 23:35 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)In reply to: Val's experience is disturbing by ncm
Parent article: Quotes of the week
Watch the movie Tootsie (starring Dustin Hoffman) sometime.
That may be an unfair comparison; paid soap opera acting is a wildly different career than volunteer (or paid) operating system kernel developer. Whereas Dustin Hoffman's character dressed in drag in order to get an acting job, Val's motivation may have been to shatter any myths (perceived or not) that women are any less capable at kernel hacking than men.
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Gender values
Posted Mar 28, 2008 21:29 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
IIRC (fading memory of stuff over a year old) that was exactly her point.