[Wellington-pm] When "use strict" gets taken too literally

[Sam Vilain]

Hi Jacinta,

A fair comment.  I wouldn't normally forward porn to the list, but heck this *is*
two girls (geeks, I'd assumed) spanking each other with the Third Edition of
_Programming Perl_, after all.  I think we'd need to crank up Douglas Adams'
Improbability Drive to see a repeat performance of event like this.

Perhaps we can have some volunteers for males posing with their copies of
_Programming Perl_ in suggestive positions?  I'll bring the camera, leotards and
whipped cream.

Please let me assure you I have nothing but utmost respect for all of my fellow
inhabitants of this fragile bubble of life, regardless of gender, race, colour,
creed, species or pretty much anything, really.

My most sincere apologies,
Sam.


Jacinta Richardson wrote:
> Sam Vilain wrote:
> 
>>Just a little reminder of why we like Perl so much!  :)
> 
> 
> G'day Sam,
> 
> Thankyou for sharing these photos with the rest of us.  If I lived in Wellington 
> and had been considering attending a Wellington Perl Monger meeting, this post 
> of yours would have me seriously reconsidering.  Instead I live in Melbourne, 
> where this kind of thing on the PM list would be unacceptable.
> 
> I suspect you think your mail was funny and that you may feel I'm over-reacting 
> when I say that your post makes Wellington PM appear rather women-unfriendly. 
> If I'm right, and you do think I'm overreacting then you might find some benefit 
> in reading the "HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux" document on the linux 
> documentation project site: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/
> 
> The message in that applies equally well to how to encourage women in Perl and 
> most other male-dominated technical fields.
> 
> Now if *I'm* being out of line by criticising behaviour on a list to which I am 
> merely a guest, then I'll welcome being told so by Grant.  If, on the other 
> hand, anyone else feels that pictures like these don't belong on an 
> open-subscription, Perl focussed, technical mailing list then I encourage you to 
>   respond so that other list members know where they stand.
> 
> All the best,
> 
>      Jacinta
>