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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Louis Gorenfeld

 wrote:

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> Thanks all for the comments on my grind-rebuttal :)

>

> So, FTR, I do think that the whole schoolgirl fixation out of Japan is

> a little creepy. But I think the specific image in question wasn't too

> egregious, though I see how it could be controversial.

>

> When SxDx mentioned that this is an "almost female-free mailing list",

> I think that actually is a low blow.

That was very nearly a sexually loaded joke :)
> list full of misogynists or something. To my knowledge, there is

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> nothing inherent to Linux audio and music which makes it seem like

> some kind of a "good ol' boys club". If anyone does feel that way, I'd

> be curious as to why.

Because the community doesn't openly work towards attracting female

contributors. I'm not kidding you. That's the feminist motto these

days: if you don't want to be a sexist, you have to openly invite

women to participate in your project.
You also can't claim that you already treat male and female

contributors the same way, that would not be sufficient. So you are

become non-sexist by making women a special case contributor. Except

you can't call it that, because it would be sexism :)
FWIW, equal rights and all that is a wonderful thing and very much

worth the effort. But the ways to reach the social equilibrium are not

always nice or logical.
Alexandre Prokoudine

http://libregraphicsworld.org

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