[techtalk] career/family question

[Karl-Heinz Zimmer]

Davida,

I don't want to understand you wrong: are you just kidding?
Or did it *really* happen like this?

Karl-Heinz

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 15.02.00, 23:51:07, Davida Schiff <dschiff at entrypoint.com>
wrote regarding RE: [techtalk] career/family question:


> Unfortunately gender does matter. In 1972 I received a draft
> notice to go to Viet Nam (lucky lottery winner...lol). Seems
> they misspelled my name. Being (obviously) female did not
> matter and I had to have a genetic work up done to prove that
>  I was indeed a  female. My birth certificate was not accepted
> either. So much for living in this mans' world.

> Davida

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From:   Cynthia Dale [mailto:silly at redhat.com]
>  Sent:   Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:18 PM
>  To:     techtalk at linuxchix.org
>  Subject:        Re: [techtalk] career/family question

>  Is curiosity a good enough reason?  (:  And if gender
> doesn't matter, what
>  fun would going to a swimming pool be?  heh.
>  C Dale

>  On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, srl wrote:

>  > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Tania Morell wrote:
>  >
>  > > > Rik
>  > > >
>  > >
>  > > It really is very hard to decipher who is male and
>  > > female by their name.  Some names are not so obvious.
>  > > Sorry about this but if you had spelled your name with
>  > > a 'c', I may have assumed one thing.
>  >
>  > why does it matter who's male, female, or other? I'd have
> to say
>  > that one of my personal goals as a feminist is to have
> gender
>  > not matter at all... but some of you seem to feel
> differently.
>  > can you explain why?
>  >
>  > shane
>  >
>  >
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>  Cynthia J. Dale
>  Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer
>  Red Hat, Inc.

>  fnord.



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