[wplug] Paris Hilton Releases Tinkerbell Linux

Burt E Reany breany at csc.com
Tue Sep 5 08:11:00 EDT 2006





Chris:

   Well said, BOTH of you - Beth, on principal, and Christopher, on
minutae.  While I personally share a chromosomal gene distribution with
Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler and a few other celebrities, I rely on the
kindness of strangers to judge my personal behavior impartially - and shame
on them if they don't.

  (Flame off).


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On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:03:29PM -0400, kimberly wrote:

> Wait... what? Do you have any idea how hard it is, as a woman in the
> technology field to *be* treated as an equal? Those might seem
> obvious, but they're not put into practice as often as they should.

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.


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