Comments on: Ubuntu Women Meeting on Thursday http://www.jonobacon.org/2007/04/15/ubuntu-women-meeting-on-thursday/ At home with Jono Bacon, Community Manager and Author Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: peer http://www.jonobacon.org/2007/04/15/ubuntu-women-meeting-on-thursday/comment-page-1/#comment-44802 peer Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:11:42 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=944#comment-44802 <p>@ken: You are both right and wrong. You are right: yes, everybody should be treated in a polite and acceptable manner. And you are wrong: women are an extreme minority in the FLOSS-, Linux- and Ubuntu-communities (below 1% if I remember it right). And minorities tend to be a little sensitive, and that's okay, because they act in a community that is dominated (from their perspective) by "the others". All this doesn't require the abolishment of free speech, but it requires some (special) consideration and courtesy.</p> @ken: You are both right and wrong. You are right: yes, everybody should be treated in a polite and acceptable manner. And you are wrong: women are an extreme minority in the FLOSS-, Linux- and Ubuntu-communities (below 1% if I remember it right). And minorities tend to be a little sensitive, and that’s okay, because they act in a community that is dominated (from their perspective) by “the others”. All this doesn’t require the abolishment of free speech, but it requires some (special) consideration and courtesy.

]]> By: ken http://www.jonobacon.org/2007/04/15/ubuntu-women-meeting-on-thursday/comment-page-1/#comment-43891 ken Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:00:07 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=944#comment-43891 <p>I find it fascinating that people often seem so eager to unite under the banner of "how women are treated in our community", but whenever somebody tries something similar about "how people [or men!] are treated in our community", it falls flat (among cries of "grow a thicker skin, thanks, bye").</p> <p>I think I need a sex change.</p> I find it fascinating that people often seem so eager to unite under the banner of “how women are treated in our community”, but whenever somebody tries something similar about “how people [or men!] are treated in our community”, it falls flat (among cries of “grow a thicker skin, thanks, bye”).

I think I need a sex change.

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