<div dir="ltr">Spider, I'm glad to see at least someone is considering the implications from an LGBT perspective as well :)<div><br></div><div>two little tidbits I'd like to add to this discussion:<div><br></div><div>
1) if your argument sounds silly when "women/woman/her/she" is replaced with "men/man/him/he", perhaps you should rethink your arguments. This can be taken even further - try replacing the group identification term (women, men, blacks, hispanics, etc) with another racial, cultural, or other group identification term, and see how discriminatory it may sound. This can often help you identify your own inbuilt - and generally unidentified - prejudices.</div>
<div><br></div><div>2) The elephant in the room really seems to be that no one want to examine the question *who* we want to make the space attractive to. I could give example after example, but it really comes down to the question of just how much freedom of action and expression we're (as groups, and individuals) willing to give up in order to make someone else more comfortable when their own socially constructed reality intersects with ours.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I do think that what we're really getting around to is a discussion on what standards of behavior are acceptable - which I'd consider very valuable. If we're going to discuss what those should be, with the understanding that they'll vary space-to-space, I'd like to see people considering these qualifiers:</div>
<div>1) the behavioral standards should be discrimination neutral on their face. No gender, racial, or culture specific references should be used.</div><div>2) the behaviors or their effects should be quantifiable, measurable, and predictable. Anything dealing with emotions are feelings immediately disqualified - not because they are not important, but because there is no way to quantify them. If you have a standardizable way to quantify emotions or feelings, I'd love to hear about it.</div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:12 AM, spider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spider@spiderwebz.nl" target="_blank">spider@spiderwebz.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 18.01.2013 14:59, Bill French wrote:<br>
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How do you codify the difference as one is acceptable, the<br>
other is not?<br>
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Well, quite easy. Don't google them as a piece of meat you would like to get your hands on, but because you are interested in the person itself. Whether it's a woman or a man.<br>
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Grtz,<br>
Spider<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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