[Gllug] Hi!

[Isabell Long]

On 29/06/2009, lesleyb at herlug.org.uk <lesleyb at herlug.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:47:13AM +0100, Isabell Long wrote:
>> 2009/6/28 Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk>:
>> > On 27 Jun 2009, Jose Luis Martinez stated:
>> >
>> >> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:06 AM, <isabell121 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> My distribution of choice is Ubuntu,
>> >>
>> >> Oh dear, don't say that loud, the ogres around here are going to hear
>> >> you ....
>> >
>> > It's basically like Debian.
>> >
>> > (are the ogres coming for me too now?)
>>
>> Yeah, it's built on Debian anyway isn't it?
>> >
>> >>> and I'm female.
>> >
>> > Now on some free software lists *that* can be a risky thing to admit,
>> > I'm afraid. I wish it wasn't so...
>>
>> Oh dear.
>> >
>> > e.g. this horrendous thread <http://lwn.net/Articles/252073/> has many
>> > stunning examples of otherwise excellent contributors revealing
>> > themselves to be sexist twits. And there are a *lot* of them, and they
>> > come out of the closet whenever gender issues come up, and they seem to
>> > consider 'someone being female' to be a gender issue :(
>>
>> Heh, I thought it was best to mention it.
>>
> Hi Isabell
>
> Sorry but curiosity gets the better of me - why?
> (as in why did you think or feel you needed to mention your gender?)

Oh don't ask me that.  I don't know.  It just felt right at the time.
I've caused fuss!  Ah well!

Isabell.

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