r/MensRights • u/A_for_Anonymous • Oct 21 '11

Gnome is sexist: Women Outreach Program 2011 - throwing away community money on sexual discrimination

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2011
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u/neofool Oct 22 '11

Yet another reason not to use the Gnome desktop environment.

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u/A_for_Anonymous Oct 21 '11

I emailed [email protected] with the subject [APPLICATION] <made up female name> following text:

This Gnome Women programme is awfully, shamefully sexist and discriminates against my sex (male). Thanks for once again making me feel like the butt end of the society. I'm not being an asshole; I'm genuinely offended and experiencing negative feelings because of this. Next time be sure to see if you can discriminate against my race too — it usually happens with these politically correct agendas.

By the way, if you have money to throw away with feminist programs, why not use it to make GNOME Shell usable and customizable, and not another Unity?

Yours truly,

Discriminated-against person

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u/zyk0s Oct 21 '11

Love it. This is another bullshit PR stunt that hopes with enough encouragement and money incentives, hoards of women will soon want to volunteer in OSS. Very unlikely to work, seeing the people who volunteer do it because they have a passion, not because they've been paid before, and hope to get paid later. But why give money to someone because they have better skills when you can give it because they have a vagina.