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Oh my god
by Jakob Petsovits on Friday 01/Sep/2006, @05:23
It's not at least surprising that there you can count the women involved in KDE on one hand, given the main topic of the majority of comments in here. Yes, Celeste is cute. No, you don't need to comment on that, and you should know by yourself that it's only counter-productive in any respect.

And now go and read Val Henson's "Encourage Women in Linux" howto at http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/howto.html

Bastards.
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Re: Oh my god
by R.James on Friday 01/Sep/2006, @08:46
How exactly, is this counter-productive? This dot article is on an interview with Celeste... There is a -personal- questions section of the interview. Those comments (and mine) are vaguely inline with that section of the interview.

Now if this was an article/summary that was strictly on HIG (and it's not), then yes those comments are innapropriate. Furthermore, Celeste hasn't said yay or nay as to whether she cares about these kinds of comments.

BTW, I asked my gf if comments like this would freak her out. She said only comments along the lines of "will you marry me", "are you single", etc... The rest she had no problem with. Simple flattery--that's all.
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  • Re: Oh my god
    by Jakob Petsovits on Saturday 02/Sep/2006, @02:52
    Ok, this is the situation:
    - Celeste has no problem with this kind of flattery (see her blog)
    - Your girlfriend has no problem with this kind of flattery
    - Many (not all) others do have a problem with this kind of flattery,
    and are feeling very uneasy in such an environment.

    Short pointer to the blog of a prominent female KDE contributor:
    http://canllaith.org/?p=4
    and she's just one example out of many.

    The fact that not all women are being scared away by this kind of comments doesn't mean that you can generalize it to all of the other ones. I mean,
    - there's no gains for you in any case
    - few women feel better with a million "you're so cute" comments
    - a lot of women don't like it.

    What's so difficult about just letting it be?
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Re: Oh my god
by Antonio on Friday 01/Sep/2006, @13:44
You did a pretty good job of pointing out an article that, you know, didn't mention what was done here as a `No'. The above was not a sexual advance, it was a simple compliment for goodness's sake.
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  • Re: Oh my god
    by Josel on Sunday 03/Sep/2006, @09:02
    Jacob has a nice link. Try http://canllaith.org/?p=4
    Maybe you get it now! Those comments about someones "cuteness" are completely innapropriate in this enviroment. If you really feel the urge then send her a email expressing and explaining your feelings about her looks - that will probably be good fun.
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