On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Sarah Sharp wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 06:20:33PM -0800, Luben Tuikov wrote: > > --- On Wed, 2/9/11, Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Can Intel or an old boys club member submit a patch to > > > fix this? > > > > Shouldn't be that difficult given the above. > > > > > > Please refrain from sexist comments. "Old boys club" > > > implies an > > > exclusion of women. Thanks. > > > I'm surprised you assumed that I'm a man. This is in itself sexist. > > What if I were a woman? Did you deduce my sex by my name? > > I would have made the same comment if you were a woman. There are > sexist women out there. I have heard women imply that certain things are > "a man's job" before, and I have called them on it too. > > It's good to know you did not intend for your remarks to be interpreted > as sexist, but they clearly have been. I suggest you read > http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Nonsexist_language to gain some > perspective on what other technical women think is sexist language. To be fair, I don't think there is a nonsexist equivalent of "old boys' club". Somehow "old people's club" just doesn't have the same punch... Besides, Luben clearly intended the phrase to be insulting and derogatory. Evidently he succeeded a little better than anticipated. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
