On Tue 20 Jan 2004 at 21:50:55, Erin S. said: > anyway, this was rather long-winded and rambling... feel free to > ignore it at will :)
I don't think it was long-winded or rambling at all, especially considering that most everyone here is used to me, Stuart, formerly Mike Halcrow (peace be upon him), and a good dozen other people (we know who we are), ranting on about less pertinent issues. And it would be a shame if any of the men on the list ignored it, seeing that it's a bona fide opinion piece of someone who's an primary source on what it feels like to be a woman in a male-dominated field. When this thread started, I was hoping that you or Danelle (you still around, D?) or one of the other fair UUG ladies would see fit to comment on this. I had actually read this HOWTO soon after it came out, and consciously tried to keep it in mind, not just in a UUG context, but since I'm a biochem major, in a larger women-in-technical-fields context. However, not being an expert in women's feelings and thought processes, I was stuck in a nasty dilemma not being sure that the opinions expressed in the HOWTO were generally applicable, and not feeling confident enough to go ask a bunch of women to read it and tell me what they thought of it and if I actually ought to try to follow the suggestions therein. So thanks for affirming that my efforts haven't been entirely misdirected. Now if someone would just write a Understand-Women-In-Other-Social-Contexts-Besides-LUGs-HOWTO, I'd be set. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
