{"id":1044,"date":"2006-09-23T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2006-09-23T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T14:54:34","slug":"foss-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/foss-feminist\/","title":{"rendered":"F\/OSS Feminist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d say that KDE article went well, everyone whose opinion I care about said very nice things. I received one email about it, and it was from a software developer who wanted to let me know about his project and how much they needed artwork, documentation, usability and internationalization skills &#8211; cool!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny that my first full interview somewhere was on a KDE website, the closest I&#8217;ve ever come to KDE is enjoying an evening and fine glass of wine with a local KDE developer and his wife. I&#8217;ve never really used it on my desktop.<\/p>\n<p>All the usual flames came. I&#8217;d say it was a nice little representation of all the typical views whenever this is brought up: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>support from fellow Linuxchix, friends and others who live and understand my views<\/li>\n<li>a comment about hot linux babes<\/li>\n<li>a couple rants about how sexist I am for promoting an outreach to women<\/li>\n<li>a comment from a woman who feels insulted and believes the experiences of others are invalid because she hasn&#8217;t had them (I imagine this is a difficult way to live your life)<\/li>\n<li>a comment from someone who thinks that we should all deal with assholes at shops to futher our cause (sorry, I&#8217;m all for this cause but sometimes I just want to buy a harddrive without being hassled)<\/li>\n<li>comments from people who might be well-meaning but don&#8217;t understand the issue<\/li>\n<li> a comment meant to be funny by taking my words out of context<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and my favorite &#8211; translating my comment &#8220;more women work in documentation, translations and artwork&#8221; into &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe women are technical and they should just do art.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> I only bothered replying to one comment in the article.<\/p>\n<p>The same arguments come up again and again with this women and F\/OSS thing, but that just makes them much easier they are to take after a while. I really have gotten to know what is worth replying to (who will listen) and what is better just left alone.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly? I sometimes wish I was one of these fellows who simply didn&#8217;t understand the issue. I sometimes wish I could be like the guy who replied and said &#8220;Everyone feels they need to prove themselves at LUG meetings.&#8221; Somehow I doubt he understands that I&#8217;ve actually been asked IF I USE LINUX at a LUG meeting, or better yet, had the guy I happened to catch a ride with be asked &#8220;Does your girlfriend use Linux too?&#8221; while I&#8217;m STANDING RIGHT THERE (Why not ask me directly? Does he think I wouldn&#8217;t know if I used Linux or not? Does he just want an &#8220;AWESOME YOUR GIRL USES LINUX! SCORE!&#8221; moment? Maybe I&#8217;m being too harsh and he&#8217;s just scared of women).<\/p>\n<p>As if my role as an activist for Women in F\/OSS was not already solidified, I guess this article does it. I never would have classified myself as this until recently, which may seem surprising since I&#8217;ve coordinated the PhillyChix for a few years now. I think there is just too much bad press about feminists and I didn&#8217;t want to be put into the category with all that, so I didn&#8217;t put myself into that category in my head.<\/p>\n<p>I guess &#8220;Feminist&#8221; should be put with &#8220;Atheist&#8221; and &#8220;Liberal&#8221; in that pile of words I&#8217;m Taking Back ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d say that KDE article went well, everyone whose opinion I care about said very nice things. I received one email about it, and it was from a software developer who wanted to let me know about his project and how much they needed artwork, documentation, usability and internationalization skills &#8211; cool! It&#8217;s funny that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}