Re: women in debian
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:03:51PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry typed:
} my experience in the CS world is that women find hacking on minutiae because
} it is fun quite boring actually. Most of them are more of the "does it work,
} good enough". As I said, this is from my own college and work experience.
} Men in computers seem willing to devote hours to trivial matters or work hard
} and long while many bitch and complain. Few women in computers I have met
} cared.
I care. I hack quite a bit and enjoy it. Half of the women in CS I know
are the same way. Then again, this is half of a very small number but
it's still statistically 50%.
} Open Source is for many people about ego. "Look at what I did", or "I could
} write that better than they did". This is a very male tendency.
<snort> How about a word from the other side of the fence? If I had to
choose between sitting through an argument between women and an argument
between men, I'd choose men. Why? Because there's just as much of a
fight for dominance in women-dominated lists/groups. It's not as obvious,
there may never be an out-and-out flamewar ever, but the underlying
politics and backstabbing is nasty, vicious, and merciless. It makes
the fallout between Thomas and Craig look like little boys fighting over
a Transformer.
If men are the apes beating their chests and yelling at each other,
and occaisonally fighting, women are the tigers slinking in the dark,
playing a game of stalk-and-kill.
It's all civilized and nice and pretty, but you'll never leave a fight
unscathed. They're right, what they say about scorned women.
} > Anyway, Debian's quite a phenomenon, I doubt that anything historically
} > described as inherently male or inherently female has to be valid in our
} > community.
}
} agreed, I hope to see more women, more groups from around the world. I enjoy
} being proved wrong as much as I enjoy being right.
I don't particularly care whether or not more women come in. I only
care if *people* come in.
--
An Thi-Nguyen Le
|Never eat anything bigger than your head.
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