[wplug] Paris Hilton Releases Tinkerbell Linux

[Tom Rhodes]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 14:53:26 -0400 (EDT)
Beth Lynn <bethlynn at wplug.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> 
> > I'm very sympathetic to the difficulty of being an outsider in a
> > homogeneous culture, but I think Don's point was that the Paris Hilton
> > piece was less anti-woman as it was anti- vacuous celebrity, while
> > Beth Lynn's citation of the anti-sexism guidelines framed it as the
> > former.
> 
> I see this is yet another "dumb blondes" have no business touching Linux 
> joke. As the FAQ I posted before points out, these jokes are really sexist
> jokes in disguise. "Tinkerbell Linux" is not the first time that somebody
> went there.
> 
> Does anyone recall Barbie OS?
> http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/barbieOS.htm
> 
> How about the folks who pasted images of tux on suggestive images of 
> women?
> 
> So... Let's talk about the dumb celebrity factor. Is anyone making mocking 
> rumors about some blonde famous man making his own distro?
> 
> Hey, I heard that Justin Timberlake is getting ready to ship his own Linux 
> distro: it's called "sync;sync;sync"

Personally, I wish more women were into computers and *nix
especially.


-- 
Tom Rhodes