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Women, girls, ladies...
Master of Reality:
Coverting from windows is an excellant for a person with a life to achieve
pkd_lives:
I resurect this thread, becasue I think it is legitmate. My G/F does occasionally puruse (but not post), but there is a considerable lack of women in the engineering business, and I guess computing is no more so.
However I would ask people don't use *ahem* sexy images in their signatures and stuff. When my G/F does visit the last thing she wants to see is some girlie pics, it's alienating, and keeps up the image of blokish behaviour, and not the intelligent discussion forum this place often is.
Of course this might be taken as a refusal of your rights to do what the hell you want, and fair enough, but it's still worthy of discussion, thinks I. Of course this is inspired by Sporkme / bob, and I intend no insult to you, and I am not trying to force you to remove your sig., but I would be interested in the views of others.
At what point is free expression to be given way to the prefered will of the majority, if at all? Is a person's own perception of acceptability always good for a community? And now I think about it, this would apply to M$s' market control. Hmmmm....thinks.....ouch that hurts.
[ August 06, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
[ August 06, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
voidmain:
Good post. And as I've said before I don't particularly like to see *any* embedded images in posts. But rather than fussing over it I have a way of dealing with it. I use my proxy server to block any site that images are linked to and I get a nice clean forum...
Kat:
There are females here, well at least one anyway. I only post if i have something to say and it hasn't been said already. As for the animated gif, it doesn't offend me ,but i could see how other women could be offended by it. To tell you the truth, not many women are into computers. I guess they associate computers with things like TVs and other electronics as being "male stuff". The conditioning theory is pretty much on the mark there. Sometimes i will sign up for a forum, ask a few questions and not post for a long time or ever again. Mainly because my questions have been answered or people are having a problem that i don't have the answer to. Sometimes i quit posting because i don't like the vibe of a place, it really depends.
voidmain:
Heh heh, well if you can handle the "vibes" of this place then then I suppose the places you won't go to is a pretty short list.
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