Fwd: Re: Updates on the site and a proposal ;)
Sorry, Angela. I meant it to go to the list.
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Subject: Re: Updates on the site and a proposal ;)
Date: Friday 23 March 2012
From: Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
To: Angela Fuß <angela.fuss@das-netzwerkteam.de>
On Friday 23 March 2012 11:20:59 Angela Fuß wrote:
> Hej dear all of you,
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung -----
>
> > On Thursday 22 March 2012 15:41:19 Marianne C. wrote:
> > > Something like
> > > "individuals of
> > > any gender", yielding
> > > "The goal of the Mentoring Program is to support and guide individuals
> > > of any gender
> > > who want to contribute to Debian..." (rest unchanged
> >
> > Ouch!n If it needs explicitly listing, why can we not use "anyone"?
> > Starting to use the word gender in this way is both linguistically
> > clumsy and uneuphonious and so PC that it becomes a strongly political
> > act. When I was young, women burned their bras. This struck me as
> > pointless and rather absurd.
> >
> > I agree we need to be inclusive, but lets keep politics out of Debian.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> I honestly think we should finish this discussion.
>
> If we write "men and women" instead of anything else it is the truth and
> everybody is able to understand it. Thats what we are on this planet: men
> and women, more or less ;-).
>
> Lets keep it simple and undramatic.
Hear, hear! That would be my preferred solution.
Lisi
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