On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:18:48PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:44:31PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > > - On a talk at Madrid, Miguel de Icaza who is a close friend of mine > > BTW, used female secretaries as examples of clueless users. > > Well, that's probably because that's empirically proven to be > correct. IIRC, the point Susan brought up at Debconf2 after the numerous "so easy your grandmother can use it" references was, "why always the "grand*mother*?" Fact is, these little references paint the person as stupid, or unskilled, or somehow "weaker" (pick the term that's right if you don't like these but it's clearly not a good thing). In our society, we tend to have an easier time making that kind of comparison to women than men. Grandfathers are hardly more likely to be ubergeeks but they're not the ones that end of as the poster child for cluelessness. If we instead try to imagine the power-developer as a grandmother we stand a better a chance of creating an environment that will make this possible and, more importantly, we have a better chance of keeping the power-developers grandmother(s) in our midst active and interested. :) Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://mako.yukidoke.org/
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