Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:01:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are there actual any woman in the freebsd world Message-ID: <20050316120151.GA7692@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <ef60af09050316035474d5341@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af09050315153221020790@mail.gmail.com> <20050316103149.GC1216@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <ef60af09050316035474d5341@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2005-03-16 12:54, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:31:50 +0200, >Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >>On 2005-03-16 00:32, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote: >>> ok i will narrow the specification a bit, which of you ever >>> encountered a woman that knows the difference between giving her your >>> phone number or giving her a ip address ? >> >> Yes. I also dislike questions like these immensely. >> >> You may have not meant it to sound like this, but questions like the >> ones above _are_ sexist; they contain, consciously or not, the >> hypothesis that somehow -- for whatever reason -- IP addresses, SQL >> servers, mail servers, routers and any other IT related topic is easier >> to grasp when you're a man. >> >> That's simply not true. >> >> If you have to ask why, you're missing the point. > > Are you a woman :) That is such a woman answer :P No. Does that somehow invalidate my opinion? I don't think so. Don't mind explaining to the list what a "woman answer" is. The explanation is very likely to be as discriminatory as the phrase itself suggests it will be. > Its not a question of stupid or smart, its a question about why my > interests are so much different then most woman ? Many good explanations of why this seems to be mostly true can be found at an excellent article by Val Henson: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/
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