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Re: Question about Desktop Environments



On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:27:20PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
...

> Perhaps that should be
> 
> s/If women are so weak they can't/If women have better things to do
> than/

very likely...

> 
> But I don't really know, just having noticed this subthread right
> abotu now, and not sufficiently motivated to go back and find the
> origin.  Did a lot of women who used to post here recently stop doing
> so?

not that I'm aware of. This thread was just a typical OT ramble that
stemmed from something else.

> 
> I really have no business in this discussion, since I just a couple of
> days ago thought, "Hrm, I should resubscribe to debian-user and see
> what's up."  Back in the day, I can't remember anyone doing anything
> particularly offensive to women on this list.  Certainly nothing on
> par with the slashdot and thedailywtf noise.

I think the most offensive thing to women on this list would be
exclamations about how easier it is to understand package foo than our
<insert female of personal significance here>.

Although admittedly, there haven't been as many women in the mix
lately as say a few months ago. 

A

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