On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 09:43 -0600, Patrick Anderson wrote: > Grandma This language is both ageist and sexist.
To quote Daniel Kahn Gilmore from the freedombox list (ironically): > Can we please stop using "grandma" as the canonical non-technical user? > The gender and age prejudice implicit in these statements only hurts > efforts to build a diverse development community (and makes the > community look like thoughtless jerks). > > If you don't personally know any technically competent older women (or > younger women, who may one day become "grandma"s themselves, without > losing any of their technical chops), i recommend getting to know more > people out of your own age/gender bracket (i'm assuming from the name in > your e-mail that you identify as male). > > Technically competent older women (some of whom are indeed grandmothers) > are not unicorns, but I wouldn't blame any of them for not wanting to > collaborate with a project that sees them only as "grandma". > -- Sent from Ubuntu
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