On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > I would just like to address Will's argument that the events are > discriminatory:
I didn't mention what my views were and I didn't argue any point for or against women only events. Really this conversation could have been closed after my email, but it seems that you and Liz weren't able to let it drop. > First of all, Girl Geek events worldwide are generally > open to everyone, but in order to ensure that the numbers are > balanced, guys will need to bring a lady. No one is excluded, and we > always have a few men at the events who seem to be enjoying it as > well. So we hope that someone - male or female - is interested in the > event > > Secondly, I don't know who has signed up to this mailing list, but I > presume that there are *some* women here I would guess so, we don't ask about gender so I don't know. > so saying that posting > something that is mainly intended for women on this mailing list hat > if it was a "Ruby NW Women" group? Would that be discriminatory? I > doubt anyone would feel offended by this - which brings me to my final > point: You'd have to make that point more clearly before I was able to understand what you mean, but instead maybe we could let the issue drop. > The main problem I see here is that the announcements are off topic, > which I agree with. We will not post any further non-Ruby related > announcements on this mailing list. Feel free to post off-topic stuff on the mailing list, that's not a problem. NWRUG is good at off-topic. > Wll, I would also ask you to close this topic, as I don't think that > any further discussion is necessary. Please feel free to refrain from answering any more emails on it then. Will. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
