So? It's not hurting anyone. You know, there is a difference between an ad for a geek event that no one cares about and a woman not getting a job because she's a woman. These are not the same things.
I can imagine many women feeling unwelcome at an event that was advertised in that way. I don't want women to feel unwelcome at tech events for many reasons.
I don't see any evidence that they were just trying to be humorous. "Women" is listed right after "booze". If they were joking by advertising "women" as "perks", then they should have understood that most people are not going to find that particularly funny.
They advertised "friendly female event staff to get you a beer". Any reasonable person would believe that they were intending to follow through on that.
Well, did you expect to see a "WARNING! WE NOW WILL ATTEMPT A POTENTIALLY OFFESIVE JOKE" written in red print? Those things are supposed to be spontaneous, you know.
You clearly have not experienced discrimination before. It's not just the act of being discriminated against, it's the memories that it invokes and the reminder of how little has changed.
Believe me, friend, I have experienced discrimination. My entire family has. They have been driven away from their home because of their nationality. Then I was mocked and humiliated by other kids as the-kid-who-cant-speak-our-language. Then there was the high school and all the "nice" things it holds for the nerds. It might well be that I have experienced more discrimination than some of the furiously anti-sexist people here. Yet I don't have anything against racial, sexist, religious or other kinds of "sensitive" jokes. They are jokes. They are not meant to be taken seriously. It's OK to laugh at them if you find them funny. If you don't, shut up and let other people laugh. Don't be a self-important asshole. After all, your precious nationality/religion/sex/sexual orientation is worth exactly nothing.
>Linux won't be ready until you can download a file from the Internet, run it, and install it just with a couple clicks (and not "you need to set the 'exectuable' flag!" error).
That way of installing software has to go. Seriously. Stop it. It's horrible.
Oh my god, this is so sad. What has the Linux-on-desktop world come to? "You can manage your windows with it" is actually an advantage.
On a lighter note, if there is still hope, it lies in the little not-so-popular desktop environments like XFCE. Those both have sane UI and are not ugly pieces of bloatware.
xfce might not be "bloatware", but it also lacks some things. The atrocious "support" for keyboard layout switching comes to mind. Short of writing your own scripts that directly call setxkbmap with parameters added by hand, you have no chance of having this working properly. (And yes, I know there is a plugin, and no, it still doesn't make it work)
That alone makes xfce absolutely unusable to me, although it is otherwise very nice.
Another nice feature concerning "you can manage your windows with it" is KDE's default ctrl+f8 desktop grid, that actually makes handling multiple desktops really easy and really lovely to use.
