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Hi there! | |
I’m not on the list (and would rather not spend the time hand-jamming headers | |
to keep this at its proper place in the thread), but I do have a response to | |
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00196.html. You may choose to | |
post this if you’d like, with attribution. | |
> So in this discussion we should watch for any bias. How many women have | |
> spoken up? When the actual experience of a woman has been brought up, have | |
> we paid all due attention? Etc. | |
Hi, woman here. | |
The original joke is neither funny nor appropriate, and I fully support its | |
removal. Don’t worry, I’m not “triggered” by it, and I’m not going to go home | |
and cry or anything like that. But I do understand the message that Dr. | |
Stallman and Mr. Oliva are conveying by steadfastly refusing to accept what | |
the community is saying. | |
The message I get from this isn’t “censorship is bad” or “reproductive health | |
care is a right” or even “the government shouldn’t interfere in a person’s | |
right to do what they and their doctor deem necessary.” The message I get | |
from this is “we think abortion is funny and we’ll fight to the end for our | |
right to joke about it.” | |
As it turns out, abortion isn’t funny. I’d recommend starting here to learn | |
more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion | |
You want to make a stand for health care rights and against the government’s | |
interference in them? Great. I’d welcome a statement from the FSF, posted in | |
a place that isn’t deep in the bowels of some difficult-to-find technical | |
documentation. | |
You want to crack a joke about how abort() reminds you of abortion? In the | |
official documentation for arguably the most popular implementation of | |
abort()? No. Just, no. It’s a serious matter, literally life-or-death in | |
some circumstances, but it is always life-changing. | |
I would bolster this with my credentials as a part of the glibc community, but | |
history is littered with the ruined husks of tech careers of the women who dared | |
to challenge the opinions of men, and I really need to pay my rent and finish | |
a release. | |
Thanks, | |
-- | |
Rey Tucker (she/her) | |
rey@reytucker.us |
hi, i see your code ATSC , is possible we can chat, skype id: spacedvb
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revision #3 clarifies the wording of the last paragraph