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Re: Announcing KDE-Women!
by bill gates on Monday 19/Mar/2001, @08:42

I want to start a club for males with lactating breasts that feed their children. Any takers?

Being serious for a second, distingushing the female coders from the male coders is stupid in my opinion. Distingushing is nothing more than seperation and seperation leads to discrimination (seperate but equals does not juve in the courts you see). Why embrace the differences? Instead of gender specific clubs we need non-gender specific clubs. Gotta go, the young one needs fed.

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Re: Announcing KDE-Women!
by Anonn on Monday 19/Mar/2001, @09:04

Agree with that - this is a completely sexist and old fashioned idea. What difference does gender make?

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Re: Announcing KDE-Women!
by Tommy on Monday 19/Mar/2001, @09:37

You are right, this project should not encourage differences between male and females in the KDE community.

The problem is that the difference excisted before this project was ever started. Look at the mailing lists, women are just not treated the same as men.

The fact that women found the need to start this project is only proof of that.

You probably like it to be treated with respect, I have seen many women being asked things that would not have been asked if she was a man. Things like: "Do you know HTML?"

My take; this project lowers the barriers for women to enter the KDE world.

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Re: Announcing KDE-Women!
by Carbon on Monday 19/Mar/2001, @19:07

>Look at the mailing lists, women are just not treated the same as men.

Could you provide a link? I have never seen any sort of sexism on the kde mailing lists myself, but I'm not a frequent participant.

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Re: Announcing KDE-Women!
by Chris Bordeman on Monday 19/Mar/2001, @21:53

I was gang-raped by the Pope and his Archbishops (or whatever). And since I have made the claim, it is true. After all, isn't the seriousness of the charge more important than evidence?

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Re: Announcing KDE-Women!
by Chris Bordeman on Monday 19/Mar/2001, @22:10

>You probably like it to be treated with respect,
>I have seen many women being asked things that
>would not have been asked if she was a man.
>Things like: "Do you know HTML?"

Or maybe statistically women are in fact more likely to be artists or HTML coders than men. This is not sexism, it is simple observance of fact.

Besides, maybe the guy just looking for someone who knew HTML!

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