Women and TLUG - a personal rant
Peter King
peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 16 01:44:26 UTC 2014
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 07:53:59PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:07:19PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> > > I stopped going because of all the heckling trashing the
> > > presentation.
> >
> > Ditto.
>
> Come on, guys. This bitching about TLUG meeting is strange to me and
> counter productive as group. People come to the meeting because they
> want to learning something, and people don't come to the meeting because
> they have nothing to learn. Heckling and harassment are side issues.
I disagree. I want to learn something, but I can't because a few people
are constantly interrupting for no good reason. And as a social group,
heckling and harassment are central to what makes something a cohesive
social group, or the opposite. Personally, I find it off-putting, and
unlike the sort of behaviour I've encountered in other computer groups.
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Peter King peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
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