On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:10:28PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:Certainly, the kind of harrassment documented here: http://www.p12n.org/misc/sexism/ is not something that I would consider acceptableI am glad you posted those logs. Now I see I was right, this whole thing is blown way out of proportion.
Finally read these. Actually, there's very little there. I expect there's more, for a channel the size of #debian.
exhibit_a - Looks like sarcasm to me, given the HOWTO link paste early on. Hard to tell from a log. It wouldn't seem as sexist without the editorialising in the log IMO.
exhibit_b - Hard to tell about this, as they're all fairly short snips. Lots of apparent sexism, including by helix, which I hope only looks like that because of the editing.
exhibit_c - Yep, rehm is wrong, although not as soon as some think (I've seen straight men make comments about sleeping with men on IRC), but wtf does it turn into a trolling match at one point? If he's so damn offensive, why invite him to continue? niwton also seems sexist.
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