From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Feb 7 18:41:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29313 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29303 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA25824; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:11:19 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id NAA47452; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:11:18 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:11:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: Mark Ovens , Licia , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Women in FreeBSD ( was Re: Is there a reseller program?) Message-ID: <19990208131118.B86778@freebie.lemis.com> References: <36BB988A.48159D7B@uk.radan.com> <19990205222817.I6050@softweyr.com> <36BC82BF.9DAE2E55@uk.radan.com> <36BD4216.DB24B7E3@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36BD4216.DB24B7E3@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 12:34:46AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 7 February 1999 at 0:34:46 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: >> >> Wes Peters wrote: >>> >>> Overtly, no, but issues like race and gender always come up, it's >>> a factor of human life. Race is less apparent than gender in many >>> ways; often names boil down to simple categories of "vaguely >>> european", "vaguely oriential", and "I have no idea." If, on the >>> other hand, your name is Licia, Laura, or Sue, chances are pretty >>> good that most males of european descent are immediately going to >>> leap to the conclusion the poster is female. >> >> True, but then there are plenty of names where the gender is not obvious >> at all (except to residents of the poster's country). > > And some not even then. Feel free to guess the gender of my offspring, > named Bailey. You have approximately a 50% chance of getting it right, > give or take 1%. My sister-in-law's firstborn is named Morgan. Wanna > guess at that one? ;^) Filly? > One of the most interesting conversations I've had came about as a > result of helping a young man in England with a PPP problem. His > name is Robin and he works for the Sheriff of Nottingham. I asked > him if he gets a lot of people curious about this situation, and > he said mostly from yanks; apparently the story isn't that well- > known in England. ;^) Of course it is. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message