Dear Dotan, On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/18 Yossi Gil <yossi....@gmail.com>: > > See you all there... > > > > SSDL, 2nd floor, Taub Building. > > > > Pizza, soda, but what about _girls_? > It is exactly this approach, of listing girls together with other "things which draw people to come", which makes a woman feel she cannot be "one of the guys" first, or "one of the professionals", but rather a sexual object first. This approach stems from the implicit assumption that people are male[*]. See sections 3.7 and 3.9 of the Encourage Women in Linux Howto: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/x168.html Most of the recommendations there is good for newbies, no matter what gender, but some sections, especially these two, refer precisely to your approach. Orna. [*] A Person Paper on Purity in Language *William Satire (alias Douglas R. Hofstadter) *http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
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