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Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop
Date 2015-04-18 08:04 +1000
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Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:

> beliavsky@aol.com:
>
> > If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it
> > the Django Womens Workshop rather than the Django Girls Workshop.
> > Referring to adults as children can be seen as condescending.
>
> You got it wrong. The name is not offensive.

It is not for you to say what is offensive to others.

Further, nobody claimed it is “offensive”, so why raise that?

The claim is that to call women “girls” is condenscending.

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Ben Finney

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EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@europython.eu> - 2015-04-17 19:25 +0200
  Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop beliavsky@aol.com - 2015-04-17 12:35 -0700
    Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-04-17 23:31 +0300
      Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2015-04-17 16:44 -0400
        Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-19 13:35 +1000
          Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-04-18 20:53 -0700
      Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-04-18 08:04 +1000
      Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-04-17 19:29 -0400
      Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-04-17 18:14 -0600
      Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop catperson <me@anonymous.invalid> - 2015-04-17 19:17 -0700
    Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-04-17 22:14 +0100

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