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LWN-style discussion

Posted Aug 28, 2009 20:43 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: LWN-style discussion by coriordan
Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software

I have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with very aggressive feminists who do consider such things to be sexism, and from their reaction, just about as bad as anything else.

if a project is making a formal statement to ban any sexist comments I think there is a need to give some indication where the project considers the line to be.

I have had a boss who, when referring to internal opinion will use the phrase 'just between us girls we know that .....'

this statement could very definantly be taken as sexist or potentially harassment

note that I have not made any comment on the gender of the manager or the staff that this is said to. it happens that the manager and the entire staff is male at this point in time. does this make a difference on if it's considered sexism or not?

I personally suspect that at one time in the past he would have said 'just between us boys' and got called on it as being a sexist comment so altered his habit.

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LWN-style discussion

Posted Aug 29, 2009 11:32 UTC (Sat) by Skud (guest, #59840) [Link]

The tendency to use language that excludes women is a problem. You might think it's a small one, but it is part of the series of straws mentioned elsewhere in this thread, of which every single one adds to the load of knowing that people think you don't belong in a group.