[Ubuntu-US-CA] the shirts

[Nathan Haines]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 10:15 -0700, Larry Cafiero wrote:

> 
> Good. We all should, and hopefully do. However, you don't seem to be
> bothered by making a statement implying dividing shirts into those
> with "ponies" (subtext: a "girl" motif) and those that don't.

I don't think calling out what was a disappointingly sexist remark
(although probably in an attempt to be politically correct, to give the
benefit of the doubt) is sexist.

> Incidentally, I'm just wondering: In light of this and Mark
> Shuttleworth's arguable gaffes at LinuxCon, is it community policy to
> dig yourself in deeper after you say something ridiculous, or is the
> phrase, "Gee, I'm sorry. I seem to have misspoken" forbidden from the
> community's lexicon?

I did not misspeak when I said that the premise that a simple shirt with
a logo on both sides needed to be planned specially with women in mind
because they had some sort of alien fashion sensibility was completely
non sequitur with the idea that they are people too, which was spoken in
the same breath by the person who suggested it.

-- 
Nathan Haines <nhaines at ubuntu.com>
Ubuntu California Local Community Team