<div dir="ltr">"If you spot a minority in your space acting in a manner that is dangerous to themselves and or equipment summon the nearest compatible minority to interface with them and inform them of the risk.  We have a handy chart that lets you know which racial and gender mixes are compatible with which.  Please reference RFC 3514 to learn more."<br>
<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Al Billings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com" target="_blank">albill@openbuddha.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Yes, please, a man should tell her how she’s doing it wrong.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">
She’s collecting stories. If there are no stories to tell, as some of you claim, she’ll get nothing. “Skewing” isn’t the issue here since she isn’t asking “how often does this happen” but, instead, “Tell me about something if it happened to you.”</div>
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Al</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div> <div style="color:gray"><div class="im"><hr>From: <span style="color:black">Red Davies</span> <a href="mailto:noiddicle@gmail.com" target="_blank">Red Davies</a><br>
Reply: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br></div>Date: <span style="color:black">January 26, 2014 at 9:15:48 PM</span><div class="im">
<br>To: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> Re: [hackerspaces] Safe Space Policies? <br>
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I feel I need to point something out.  Your invitation to that form says "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">If any women in hackerspaces have stories of sexism they'd like to share with me for an article".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">One of your questions in your form is: "</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">Have you had any experiences of sexism, misogyny, harassment, or assault in a hackerspace?</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">Given your invitation I would suggest that you've already skewed your results.</span></div></div></div></span></blockquote><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <div>
<span style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"></span>-- <br>Al Billings<br><a href="http://makehacklearn.org" target="_blank">http://makehacklearn.org</a><div><br></div></div></font></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>

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