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OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering

OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering

Posted Aug 28, 2009 12:51 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering by dannyobrien
Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software

> "weakness" is the only possible reason that people feel they can no longer work with a community

He argued that weakness is *not* the reason for women leaving. i.e women are not weak.


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OK, I'll bite. Sides of this issue you might not be considering

Posted Aug 29, 2009 11:36 UTC (Sat) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]

Yes, and he originally concluded from this that woman were not leaving, because only weak people would leave. Danny's point looks accurate to me.

(I can't believe we're *actually* describing Bruce's arguments to each other in this subthread.)

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