Re: [Diversite] Excuses officielles de la part de RMS concernant les vierges d'Emacs

[lucile <lucile.fievet AT gmail.com>]

Bon en même  temps c'est pas comme si stallman ne faisait pas
régulièrement des allusions sexistes  ;o)

lucile

Le samedi 14 novembre 2009 à 13:10 +0100, Rayna a écrit :
> FIY :)
> 
> La blagounette de Richard Stallmann sur les vierges d'Emacs n'a pas
> fait que rire. En effet, plusieurs personnes ont souligné que la
> blague avait des relents sexistes (pour un peu plus de détails :
> http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/EMACS_virgins_joke).
> Le mail ci-dessous a juste été envoyé à certaines listes de discussion
> (Gnome-women par exemple).
> 
> 
> Some of the people in the audience in my speech in the Gran Canaria
> Desktop Summit thought that my joke about the Virgin of Emacs was
> intended to make some kind of statement about women.
> 
> I was surprised by that reaction, since I had told the same joke
> dozens
> of times and this is the first report of interpreting it that way.  In
> any case, it was a misunderstanding: the only intended meaning of the
> Cult of the Virgin of Emacs is to parody another Cult of the Virgin.
> The whole St IGNUius routine makes fun of me, the free software
> movement and religion, through parody.
> 
> To be abundantly clear, my views about women in connection with free
> software are simply that they deserve freedom in using computers, just
> as men do.  Some women already appreciate this freedom and have become
> free software activists.  We need more people, regardless of sex, to
> do this, so that someday all women, and all men, will enjoy the
> freedom that free software offers.
> 
> Misunderstanding is not a good outcome.  To help avoid
> misunderstandings of this kind in the future, since August I have
> changed the joke so that the Virgin of Emacs can be of either sex. 
> 
> 
> Rayna
> 
> -- 
> "Change l'ordre du monde plutôt que tes désirs."
> 
> Membre de l'April - Promouvoir et défendre les logiciels libres
> 
> PhD Student 
> "Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics" 
> Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) of Munich 
> 
> 
> 
> What happens when you've worked too long in the lab :
> *You wonder what absolute alcohol tastes like with orange juice.
> *Warning labels invoke curiosity rather than caution.
> *The Christmas nightout reveals scientists can't dance, although a
> formula for the movement of hands and feet combined with beats per min
> is found scrawled on a napkin by a waiter the next day.
> *When you have twins, you call one of them John and the other -
> Control.