Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-22 Thread acastonguay
From: Alexandre Castonguay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pd-list@iem.at Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Hi all, Yves, Here are some facts may help

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-21 Thread Alexandre Castonguay
Hi all, Yves, Here are some facts may help explain and paint a correct picture of the convention's gender distribution. Number of applications received for the exhibition component : 9 (F) 26 (M) Invitations sent : 6 (F) 12 (M) Number of applications for performances (* I am unsure as to the

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-19 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 10/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ola, Honestly I wasn't even sure this sevy was really Yves, and for that matter I know nothing about Yves. As I said- the original statement was completely untrue; and the original poster hasn't responded to that fact. I

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
I see you found the thread yourself, while I was running around trying to find work instead of staying updated. On 10/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and about feminist jokes. well you know feminism is in total discredit, is not fashionable anymore but the conditions for

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread Patrice Colet
Hello, just a parenthesis to make things clear, :), Chuckk Hubbard a écrit : I wasn't aware that women didn't participate. My few exchanges with Patrice convinced me she knows far more than I about computers and especially Pd, but for a year or two I had no idea what her sex was. As

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 10/18/07, Patrice Colet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, just a parenthesis to make things clear, :), Chuckk Hubbard a écrit : I wasn't aware that women didn't participate. My few exchanges with Patrice convinced me she knows far more than I about computers and especially Pd, but for

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread Kevin McCoy
Equality is equality, and doesn't need another name. If a man is treated badly for his gender, does he have less right to justice because he is a member of a group less often treated badly? Maybe not in theory, but in many people's actions, yes. I believe in equal rights, but I don't

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 10/18/07, Kevin McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Equality is equality, and doesn't need another name. If a man is treated badly for his gender, does he have less right to justice because he is a member of a group less often treated badly? Maybe not in theory, but in many people's

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 10/18/07, Yves Degoyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ola, this is an excellent summing up of all that is wrong here... i didn't except to find soo much c.r.a.p. under the carpet .. you can call me a troll, but i don't think i'm so braindead [maybe tired]. You never did explain why you

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread vade
In my defense (for my instigative comments earlier in the thread), im not macho/sexist in any way, I am simply lewd, loud and obnoxious and enjoy cynical humor, because the joke is not the joke, its the fact that some genuinely may laugh at it. Some may even call me an asshole, but hey, at

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread Patrice Colet
Patrice Colet a écrit : -once a pd friend said that his professor said that women can't do sound because is too abstract for them, they need the materiality of visuals so Zeena Parkins, Laurie Anderson, ... never did anything.. Yeah! Superman is a great (and certainly one of the best)

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread Patrice Colet
hey! Yves Degoyon a écrit : ola, in fact, i do more of the visuals now but we don't use video anymore, text is more interesting. I'd like to ask you something*. What are you working on? Is (and how it is) it related with sound? -once a pd friend said that his professor said that

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread Charles Henry
On 10/18/07, Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/07, Yves Degoyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ola, this is an excellent summing up of all that is wrong here... i didn't except to find soo much c.r.a.p. under the carpet .. you can call me a troll, but i don't think i'm so

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-18 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 10/19/07, Charles Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/07, Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/07, Yves Degoyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ola, this is an excellent summing up of all that is wrong here... i didn't except to find soo much c.r.a.p. under the

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-17 Thread Patrice Colet
.·:*¨¨*:·.darsha.·:*¨¨*:·. a écrit : Hi people If this thread has to continue please feel free to substitute the word 'girls' for 'women' or 'sisters' even. all Right! all right! sista! ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-17 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
You absolutely have a valid opinion, its' good to hear it on this list. Now it seems that this thread is actually getting somewhere. I had decided to ignore it, so I didn't realize the depths it had fallen to. I also have a strong distaste for the gang bang talk and macho programming.

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-17 Thread bigswift
most ISMs turn into cottage industries IMHO, feminism is definitely among them for the record my C++ teacher was a woman, and in Supercollider class we were pretty much 50/50 men and women, sharing ideas and helping each other with code. people make mistakes and students can be cruel, but i no

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-17 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 23:22 -0700, Alicia Byer wrote: Hi everybody, Maybe I have no valid opinion because I just lurk on this list, but I don't appreciate being called girl either, I'm in my mid-twenties also. And as far as the thread making anybody's skin crawl, I agree with Darsh. The

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-17 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I forgot to add, I think there are very few people on this list who are deliberately trying to exclude people. There are a wide range of cultures involved in this list, and some things that are not a big deal in some places are quite offensive in others. And email is never a good

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-17 Thread Vircy Parker
I propose another Topic, the PoorDeveloppement of PD :P :D About this offtopic: please, no sexism, no racism, no specism, that's all 2007/10/17, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I forgot to add, I think there are very few people on this list who are deliberately trying to

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-17 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: So in the hopes of sharing Pd, I hope we can keep that in mind when posting. I know I learned a lesson when I said hey guys on this list in the past. In California (where I grew up), men and women, feminists and not, commonly use hey guys to

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-17 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: It seems that computer music is one of the last bastions of male dominance, I mean even most Linux events are at least 20% female, not so in the computer music world. It must be quite dependent on the actual school, but I know that not far

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-17 Thread Roman Haefeli
hello again On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 08:23 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me switch in again. it was not my intention to stop a thread in a dictatorship way. i just noticed, that the discussion meandered through very different subject-matters, that weren't related anymore at all to the

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-16 Thread David Merrill
so to hell if you're not concerned how girls are treated in the pd community ( actually just as meat and object of greasy jokes ), so again, yeh, sorry, they won't participate to nothing here! yves, I haven't noticed anything offensive on the list like you describe (maybe you're mixing life

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-16 Thread pueblo
yves, I haven't noticed anything offensive on the list like you describe (maybe you're mixing life on the streets with life on the pd-list? :)) hi David and all, I don't know if you didn't follow some threads but here are some examples of greasy jokes: From: João Miguel Pais [EMAIL

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-16 Thread Charles Henry
there's no 'PLEASE STOP' there is 'YES PLEASE HURT ME!', that's all we can take here. That's funny... yes please hurt me is also my safe word (just a little joke to illustrate how some 'fringe' vernacular enters into common usage... we all know what that means) but it is really kind of

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-11 Thread Derek Holzer
As Roman already so eloquently suggested EVERYONE PLEASE STOP THIS NOW. You're all adults enough that no one needs to get the last word in. I hope. Thanks, derek -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ---Oblique Strategy # 164: Twist the spine

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-11 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Seems to me it's been a pretty civil discussion. Way off-topic, definitely, but not terribly aggressive. I don't understand telling people not to talk about something. Whether or not we are all adults, we are all capable of deciding for ourselves what we want to say and read. -Chuckk On