From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-08-24T13:28:12+09:00
Subject: Re: A Mascot...

On Saturday 23 August 2008 21:23:13 David A. Black wrote:
> OK, I'll make it easier for you. I, personally, am offended by the
> suggestion that a cute little (naked or otherwise) girl named Ruby be
> the Ruby "mascot."

You're one person... but I was generalizing.

However...

> Meanwhile please channel some of 
> this energy into real issues, like why we as a community have not
> blazed the new trail of inclusiveness across sexual boundaries that it
> once seemed we might.

Ok, I'm curious -- how many females have seen this image? How many have 
actually been offended by it? (I'm assuming "David" is male.)

I think we do more harm to that "inclusiveness" by focusing on this issue at 
all. But I'm not really qualified to debate that. (Are you?)

But if you'd rather talk about inclusiveness... Is Ruby particularly 
under-represented, among programming languages? We're talking about a very 
small niche of an already male-dominated field.



I can see why you're tired of this issue. I'll stop.