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Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material



On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:15, Thom May wrote:
> * Reagan Blundell (reagan@whatever.net.au) wrote :
> > Am I the only one who finds it odd that people are complaining about
> > offensive jokes in the BitchX package.. yet they have no problems
> > using software that has a quite obviously derogatory sexist name?
>
> 1 definition found
>
> From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
>
>   bitch
>        3: informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the
>           service here" [syn: {gripe}, {kick}, {beef}, {squawk}]

I wonder if someone will complain about grep, kicker-applets, and the variety 
of awk programs?  ;)

Good thing we don't have a package named "beef"!

I wonder if we'll have another Dutch person complaining about GVD now.

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