On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 05:46:57PM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:29:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:29:40PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > >>Evidence. I would like to see evidence that Debian has not been giving > >>equal rights to males and women over the past years. > > > >The fact that our male / female participation ratio is much lower than even > >the gender split in IT, let alone the wider community should be enough. > > That isn't evidence at all. All that demonstrates is that males and > females have fundamentally different interests.
"males and females have fundamentally different interests" is one, possible, explanation of why Debian has a far lower women / men ratio than general society. It doesn't really explain why Debian has a lower women / men ratio than exists in IT. > Of course, the men-should-have-tits-and-give-birth crowd has dedicated > themselves to denying this for the past 50 years. My wife and I happen to share a common interest in motorcycling, and also in needlework. I'm sure your bullshit stereotyping will come up with some explanation for that. > >Just because it doesn't say "no wheelchairs" at the door, doesn't mean > >those > >stairs aren't going to be a pain in the arse to get up. > > He asked you for constructive feedback. If I ask you for the same, can I expect it? > Don't assume there are stairs preventing the wheel-chaired person from > getting onto the basketball court; SHOW THEM to us. The fact that few > wheel-chaired people are into playing basketball with normal people Talk about language shaping perception... > doesn't mean that the gymnasium is discriminating against them. What about if you've got two gyms, one which has a number of wheelchair-basketball players, and one that has none. Would you perhaps wonder why one of those gyms had a different representation? - Matt
