Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:11:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, Licia <licia@o-o.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Women in FreeBSD ( was Re: Is there a reseller program?) Message-ID: <19990208131118.B86778@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36BD4216.DB24B7E3@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 12:34:46AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902051300570.10237-100000@o-o.org> <36BB988A.48159D7B@uk.radan.com> <19990205222817.I6050@softweyr.com> <36BC82BF.9DAE2E55@uk.radan.com> <36BD4216.DB24B7E3@softweyr.com>
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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
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