Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned:
>
> Yes, I certainly was *not* thinking that "only men are rigorous".  I
> meant the second thing.  What I was clumsily trying to say is that the
> stereotype is silly, but I like an environment you have to be afraid
> to ask questions, because it makes me work harder.  I like things to
> be hard.  Gender isn't even an issue or a nonissue about why I feel
> that: it's totally orthogonal.

I'm not sure that I like that sort of environment all the time, but I do
think that I've found the root cause of many a problem simply by trying
to put together the most accurate and descriptive question I could.  The
untold benefit to asking a "smart question" is that often, in the course
of turning one's question into a smart one, one finds the answer.

-- 
monique