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Andrea Glorioso wrote:

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> iriXx  writes:

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>>for a long time i felt it was LAD by name, LAD by nature. there are few

>>women on the list, and all of us who have been there have found it

>>difficult to get in to the group. i'm sure this is unintentional - but

>>changing the name would help an awful lot in removing this image.

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> That's (very   unfortunately)  the   general situation of    women  in

> computing.  I  don't  think that changing  a  name is going  to change

> long-standing (bad) habits,  but  if it  in some way  can help attract

> more female users/developers/writers/whatever, I'm  all for  not using

> the term "LAD".

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> On the other hand, think  about those poor guys whose  name is male in

> Italy but female in every other part of the world  - we get treated as

> females but we need to shave every morning just like males!

> 

:-D
or imagine to have a nordic name whose gender seems not to be

obvious in a number of languages and be spammed with both breast

*and* penis enlargements :)
when the new LAD site is up, i will suggest LAUD as the new

general-purpose acronym for the community around the lists. however,

for practical reasons, i would like to retain LA[DAU] as shorthand

for the individual lists. those who don't like the accidental

connotation can spell it out :)

i'm with andrea in that changing the name is not going to change the

attitude.
i'll come up with a thread on LAD once the new site is up, and we

can then discuss the acronym in the proper place...
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