Hi, On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:10:23PM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: > The phrase "Mere Male" was title of a column I read in NZ Women's Weekly > that my mother bought when I was a teenager. That's nice. I still found it offensive enough in the context to think it worthy of note. (I'm not really one for umbrage-taking, but given the topic I thought it worth calling out.) > Note that even between England and the USA there is a culture gap. Indeed, between Canada and the US there's one, too (a gap that I appreciate even more now that I am marooned in New Hampshire). But I think you're missing my point, which is that when one is working on the Internet with an unknown selection of people from widely-differing cultures, one needs to be even more sensitive than usual to the possibility of creating a chilly environment. I seem to recall that Josh suggested at the start of this discussion that the lack of a CoC discourages some class of participants. One might wonder whether that is the class one wants, and that decision is certainly past my pay grade. All I was trying to note was that the current conversation about this topic itself may create the very kind of environment people are worried about. > So my world view might be bigger than yours! Indeed, it might. And I don't think I was suggesting it was bigger or smaller; there's a reason I elided the attribution, and the "you" in what I wrote was intended in the generic sense. I apologise in case that wasn't clear. > It is the perceived intention of what one says that is important, not what > one actually says! I think that is perhaps a false dichotomy. But I also think I have said enough on this topic, so I shall stop now. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
