[Gllug] Unsubscribing and why

[pmgazz]

I just exited from a flame in #GLLUG - can't stay on a list where people 
are prepared to call women 'slappers', 'chavs' etc - or to make the kind 
of contemptuous statements about working class people and/or women that 
I was really shocked to hear. I have logs of the convo if anyone finds 
this hard to believe.

I tried to discuss it reasonably but was shouted down.

I'm surprised anyone wonders why there are so few women in FLOSS 
development.

I don't think it's helpful for FLOSS groups to create environments which 
are frankly hostile to women or to people who do not have privileged 
backgrounds and I'm sorry that I'm therefore not able to participate in 
my local LUG.

Paula (Fossbox)

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