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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>
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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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