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Wrong planet error
Oct. 17th, 2006 01:27 pm[ anybody who’s come to this post late might want to read my next entry as well ]
Looks like it’s the time for it: having recently participated in a discussion on racism, privilege and entitlement chez![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
perigee, and one on sexism in the programming community flocked elsewhere, a friend pointed me at the website of an upcoming ColdFusion Dev Conference.
I was sufficiently angered by the implications (on all sorts of levels) of a “FREE CFDeveloper party with entertainment in the form of a private bar, music provided by a Live DJ and Tequila slammer girls” (who I might want to “chat up” up after they gave me “free tequila shots”) that I mailed the organisers:
( a brief email exchange follows )
ETA1: remove the flockedness - on consideration, there’s nowt there I don’t want public.
ETA2: here’sramtops‘ post on the same subject (and yes, she did mail him first :)
ETA3:pdcawley adds his comments on his blog.
Looks like it’s the time for it: having recently participated in a discussion on racism, privilege and entitlement chez
perigee, and one on sexism in the programming community flocked elsewhere, a friend pointed me at the website of an upcoming ColdFusion Dev Conference.I was sufficiently angered by the implications (on all sorts of levels) of a “FREE CFDeveloper party with entertainment in the form of a private bar, music provided by a Live DJ and Tequila slammer girls” (who I might want to “chat up” up after they gave me “free tequila shots”) that I mailed the organisers:
( a brief email exchange follows )
ETA1: remove the flockedness - on consideration, there’s nowt there I don’t want public.
ETA2: here’s
ramtops‘ post on the same subject (and yes, she did mail him first :)ETA3:
pdcawley adds his comments on his blog.
