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Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"



This one time, at band camp, Michael D. Norwick said:
> Amaya wrote:
> >Peter Tuhársky wrote:
> >
> > > Saying that, I'm glad there are women in Debian community,
> > > although I don't fully understand their effort to maintain a
> > > special "Debian Women"  community. There is no "Debian Men"
> > > community I know of, and
> >
> >Oh! Wait! What about the men!
> >
> >I think you lack some perspective. Debian Men is the *default* When I
> >joined Debian there were 4 female developers, only one was active.,
> >out of 1000 male ones. I felt weird becasue I was so much into this
> >'boy thing'. 
>
> From: http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html
> 
>      Pioneering Women of Computing
> 
> No, women never did anything significant with computers.

You understand that arguing that computer science is not currently
predominantly male because there are notable women in the field is not
just wrong, but patently silly, right?
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