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Re: Showering standards and communication

Re: Showering standards and communication

Posted Apr 18, 2021 15:37 UTC (Sun) by Nemo_bis (guest, #88187)
In reply to: Searching in vain for evidence of "abuse" or "sexual harassment" by dvdeug
Parent article: Kicking off the GNU Assembly

What's obvious for you might not be obvious for others. Asking a direct question avoids guesswork. Margarita Lacabe wrote:

> As described, he has phobias (his one, when I met him, was of having his head under water, which meant he seldom washed his hair.)[*]
> * We are told that in the 1990s Stallman developed a technique for washing his hair which felt safe, and since then he has washed his hair regularly.↑

https://stallmansupport.org/margarita-lacabe-my-relations...

Maybe that house did not provide the necessary equipment, and he didn't want to impose by asking for it. We know from the info package that he's very considerate about the risk of his requests being a burden:

> In some places, my hosts act as if my every wish were their command. By catering to my every whim, in effect they make me a tyrant over them, which is not a role I like. I start to worry that I might subject them to great burdens without even realizing.

https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/raw/master/fulltext/20111...


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Re: Showering standards and communication

Posted Apr 18, 2021 15:42 UTC (Sun) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Does anybody see this conversation leading to any kind of useful conclusion? I would like to propose that this would be a good time to let it wind down.

Thank you.


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