Re: rewording to avoid sexist language on debian page (fwd)

[Snoopy <anoopyroli69@yahoo.de>]

Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Snoopy wrote:
>
> > Oh, my god... what kind of a problem! there are people killed in Iraq 
> > by Americans, women raped by the same and you don't have bigger 
> > problems than with using male/female addressing in a manual????
>
> what does the one thing have to do with the other thing? You 
> disqualified yourself, because you did not notice that this list
> is 'debian-doc' it is their to discuss *how* debian documentation
> is done - it is not debian-politics, iraq-against-american or anything
> else like this, so it does not care at this list who dies anywhere
> and sexism is an important thing to change in every part of the world
> and in every second and if change begins at debian documentation then
> it is ok.
>
> > Poor!
>
> You are poor, right.
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick
Hi

.sexism is a question of point of view, nothing else.
.the installation of a debian-system will not become easier, though.

.maybe, that I don't have much money - so I am poor, I admit that one.

.B.t.w., this is a public list and sowith open to everybody who wants to 
.share his opinion with others.

More important:
Instead of discussing about each sentence of a manual, which should 
finally be published in this century, it would be more efficient to add 
a remark in the foreword like:

'to keep texts as simple as possible please note, that even if male 
gender has been chosen, it is selfexplanatory, that all human beings of 
whatever gender are addressed'

nigh?

Snoopy