also sprach Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es> [2005.06.17.1248 +0200]: > That's one of the main entry barriers I see for women. We're > always required to be more mature, more grownups, to be able to > ignore everything, to keep calm, not to reply. That's something > usually boys do not need to have when approaching free software > world. That obviously makes far less women want to join this > world, it's quite understandable. Let alone the issue of gender, it is not just women who get their daily beatings in Debian. Spend some time on IRC or get into a flame war and experience the personal attacks. Now if you let these get to your core, you've got another thing coming. If DW tries to keep an environment with only friendly encounters, that's great. I'd still say that you can actually learn for life from exposing yourself to Debian and *not* taking personal attacks serious. You have to learn that non-personal communication media are (a) easy to abuse for insults (you don't have to look into the person's face), and (b) often the grounds for misunderstandings. > I don't wanna have to constantly be on guard, to be prepared to > ignore trolls, to be able to cope with sexual or sexist attacks > and so on. Boys do not have to cope with all that. Yes, we do. > BTW, You don't need to be a true grownup to enjoy Free Software :) Oh, right. And I guess some of us really aren't. Including myself. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! seen on an advertising for an elaborate swiss men's watch: "almost as complicated as a woman. except it's on time"
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