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OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be consideringOK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be consideringPosted Aug 27, 2009 23:22 UTC (Thu) by Skud (guest, #59840)In reply to: OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering by BrucePerens Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software
* Blowjob-related ads in Linux publications
Is this "Do you suck at coding", or something else?
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Linux_Journal_blowjob_ad
* Not having our experiences believed
Maybe it would be better if some of you stuck with LWN instead of being on some girrls-only list. If you want to be believed, being there counts.
I am on one women-only list out of dozens. Do you seriously believe I (we) are active participants in open source without being on mixed mailing lists, websites, twitter/identi.ca, IRC, conferences, LUGs, etc? Strawman.
* Death threats
I get them too. What are these folks objecting to? Just your presence? Are they really project participants? I see some people whose job or obsession is to demotivate us and aren't really project participants.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Debian_and_LinuxChix_h...
* Accusations of reverse sexism when we ask people to avoid the above
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/faq-ar...
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OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering Posted Aug 27, 2009 23:41 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] Well, QSol's out of business, it appears. I won't lament.Was Mike-whoever-he-is identified as a real member of a Free Software community? The reason I am asking is that I have had people do similar stuff to me, and when I've explored I find that they have no real connection to any project and are more likely someone who is paid to make us look bad. OK, "reverse-sexism" is bogus, and not the sexism I was concerned with.
OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering Posted Aug 28, 2009 0:02 UTC (Fri) by Skud (guest, #59840) [Link]
I believe MikeeUSA was an open source developer of some kind; some kind of gaming-related stuff? But it's not really relevant: his death threats are no less scary and offputting.
As for the fact that you (and presumably others) receive death threats, I don't think it's cool or OK that *anyone* threatens anyone's life ever, but I do think men are in a better position to brush it off: there is not such a history of men being killed purely out of misandry. The Debian death threats had an eerie similarity to the Montreal Massacre killer's anti-feminism, and more recently to George Sodini. It is absolutely and realistically scary that men kill women just for being in technical fields and/or believe that feminists are ruining everything. Much as we'd love to ignore it and brush it off, we can't.
OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering Posted Aug 28, 2009 0:58 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] I agree with you about threats.While I would not be a victim of misandry, there is a history of similar nutcases targeting ethnic semites. And lots of folks believe we're running everything too.
OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering Posted Aug 28, 2009 1:42 UTC (Fri) by spender (subscriber, #23067) [Link]
He also seems to be a user of grsecurity. He's annoyingly littered up completely unrelated technical topics with his misogynistic views several times.
-Brad
OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering Posted Aug 28, 2009 6:18 UTC (Fri) by hypatiadotca (guest, #60478) [Link]
thanks for that pointer, spender. lead me to find his real name, finally. seems he's a law student in maine.
i <3 your exploit videos, incidentally.
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