About the only ones I don't see as offensive are Class 6, 10, and 11.... because it's usually my fiance who starts blithering and goes off on a tangent while we try to watch something. He seriously doesn't stop until (posted to Workshop: How to effectively respond to "jokes" forwarded via email)
I'm sorry but the poverty line in my opinion is bull crap. Around 14,000 for a family of 2. In some cities, you'd be lucky to have all your bills paid for if you made that much (and that's living (posted to Debunking Racist and Classist Myths about Teen Pregnancy.)
Its not that the company isn't hiring women as often as men, its that there are not women wanting the jobs. Because there is hostility when entering the field in the first place. Even with just web programming, I get (posted to WoMoz: Attracting Women to Open-Souce Programming)
Its not that the company isn't hiring women as often as men, its that there are not women wanting the jobs. Because there is hostility when entering the field in the first place. Even with just web programming, I get (posted to WoMoz: Attracting Women to Open-Souce Programming)
For some reason it split my message in half: When I ask a question because I want the professor to clarify, I can hear the snickering and them calling me stupid. Rather than my eyes are bad and have a (posted to WoMoz: Attracting Women to Open-Souce Programming)
Ah, yes. I was too ashamed to buy my own a couple of years back, so my partner bought a pack of three for me. It was positive (I made him pee on one of the three just to make (posted to I Put My Ring on My Left Hand)
I'm kind of disappointed how the womoz project seems eager to blame the hostile environment on the women who don't participate in OSS, rather than the men who are actually being hostile. From the wiki (emphasis mine): You enter a (posted to WoMoz: Attracting Women to Open-Souce Programming)
The problem isn't high standards; it's differing standards for men and women, and differing interpretations of the same behavior coming from different genders, neither of which is something feminists support. A woman makes a small mistake, it's because she sucks (posted to WoMoz: Attracting Women to Open-Souce Programming)
