[TriLUG] Palmer for another SC term; proposed amendment to the bylaws

[Kevin Otte]

Brandon,

I don't think I can possibly improve upon what you've said. It did, 
however, remind me of a comic I just recently encountered that seems 
apropos:

http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/falseequivalence/

-- Kevin

On 04/25/2013 03:30 PM, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Phillip Rhodes
> <motley.crue.fan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> I just want to be *very* careful that we don't create an environment
>> where people feel like they are walking on eggshells, having to
>> constantly worry about being busted by the "PC police" at every turn,
>> when they are at a TriLUG function.
>
>
> Given the overwhelming gender imbalance in the computer industry, I frankly
> wouldn't lose sleep if the policy said "men who say X Y Z will be shot on
> sight."  ;-)  A certain level of exaggeration is tolerable because in the
> real world, policies have almost no force.  Doing anything that even
> suggests having a policy, no matter how sloppily or callously worded, is to
> the good, as social reprogramming of people's deeply entrenched habits is
> very very difficult.  A policy pretty much spits in an ocean of deep
> economic and educational imbalance, that makes the landscape what it is, so
> if the policy is a big jaw stocking hockey of a spitball... who cares?  why
> worry?  No manhood is likely to be impuned in the making of this film.
>
> I'll reconsider my "it doesn't matter what it says" position when women
> prove that they actually *do* have some power at a TriLUG meeting and
> really *are* making some men uncomfortable with it.  At which point, I
> would say "Aha!  The shoe is on the other foot, what a great exercise in
> empathy" and ask for people to wordsmith something to deal with it.  Until
> that's a working reality....
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon
> who is really sick of the gender imbalance of this industry, and thinks
> steps must be taken in broad strokes
>