Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> There is nothing like a moral right to mock people, just like there is
>> nothing like a moral right not to be mocked.
>
> Research[1] has shown that one of the primary factors deterring women
> from involvement in free software is the perceived hostility of many of
> the communities. Do candidates believe that mocking of other members of
> the project is acceptable[2], given that a side effect may be to
> discourage a significant body of the population from participating
> within the project?
What would be considered negative mocking by one person, might just as
easily be considered a criticism combined with a bit of humour by
another. If there is a line there, it is blurred and widely different
for different people. Therefore, when I am being mocked, I always simply
ignore any personal remarks or mocking comments and look beyond that to
what exactly is causing that. It is almost always possible to extract
some useful criticism from even the most snide remarks. After all, even
if your worst enemy humiliates you publicly in the worst possible way on
something you program does wrongly, the bug is still there, regardless
of who and how told you about it.
In the end, in a global community there are people with different
boundaries and coping with people that have a different sense of humour
or critique is essential for participation in such a global project. My
experience shows that women are just as capable of recognising different
social attitudes in people as men. Or do you disagree?
--
Best regards,
Aigars Mahinovs mailto:aigarius@debian.org
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