An Open Letter to the Open Source Community

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

Around or about Tuesday 22 May 2007 01:32 pm, Eric Dunbar spake thusly:

> The responses this thread has generated demonstrate that there IS
> indeed a problem with the way people <ahem, men, by-and-large> respond
> to any mention of sexism.
> 
>> If you put a hand-full of men into a chat-room full of a diverse
>> selection of single women he'll be bombarded with suggestive comments
>> just as women are in a chat-room (or mailing list) full of a diverse
>> selection of single men.
> 
> If the chat room is explicitly set up for male-female sexual/courtship
> interactions, perhaps!

They don't have to be. Trust me, it's a problem all over the Internet. I've
got a number of female friends around the Internet and they are constantly
bombarded with come-ons (often very LEWD ones) from men (Instant messages,
private messages from forums or social networking sites and so forth).

None of the places I'm speaking of are specific to "dating" or "hooking up". 
Basically anywhere a Woman on the Internet makes herself available to the
public at large, she will run into these neanderthals.


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            Scott
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