[Gllug] Hi!

[lesleyb at herlug.org.uk]

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?)

Regards

L.
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