An Open Letter to the Open Source Community (Melissa Draper)

[Robert McWilliam]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:24:52 +0100
"Pete Ryland" <pdr at pdr.cx> wrote:
> Here's a fairly recent example I happened to
> witness to my absolute disgust:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com/msg03636.html

This was one of the examples Melissa gave as well (though indirectly).
I don't want to prove your point about how terrible this community is
in defending sexism, but: Can someone tell me what is offensive about
that joke? It relies on there being differences between males and
females which can make dealings between them hard, but I don't get how
that can be offensive since that is also (partly) what Melissa is
saying. 

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