Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

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>> I consider "real men" to be a gender-neutral complement. I know women who gladly receive it and exchange it amongst themselves.

> Since we're offering Casey money to do things¹ today:
> I will send you a check for $5 if you admit that "real men" is _in no way_ a gender-neutral compliment.

since he had used "many of whom" instead of "many of which" when
referring to packages, I guess English is not his mother language
and in his native language "real men" could be gender-neutral.


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Chris Ball <cjb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   > On 11/30/2009 11:49 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>   >> I guess all the female hackers are just SOL?
>
>   > I consider "real men" to be a gender-neutral complement. I know
>   > women who gladly receive it and exchange it amongst themselves.
>
> Since we're offering Casey money to do things¹ today:
>
> I will send you a check for $5 if you admit that "real men" is _in no
> way_ a gender-neutral compliment.
>
> - Chris.
>
> ¹:  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/125130
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