[HacktionLab] Space managing and washing up

[Mike Harris]

+2

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JimDog wrote:
> +1 we should definitely do that!
>
> -original message-
> Subject: Re: [HacktionLab] Space managing and washing up
> From: yossarian <yossarian at aktivix.org>
> Date: 07/06/2010 11:22 pm
>
> On 07/06/10 18:28, Juley Howard wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>> I think that if you have a problem of people sitting on laptops and not 
>> doing their washing up and that they happen to be of one particular gender 
>> then I will not be going around collecting up their mugs for them.  
>>     
> I agree :).  The fact that the guys get really interested in all the
> creative stuff they're doing and leave the maintenance work to the
> wimmins just perpetuates the screwed-up gender dynamics.
>
>   
>> I would hope that the people who volunteered for the rota to wash up reflect 
>> the balance of people who have booked.
>>   
>>     
>
> It is too late to suggest messing with the schedule for Barncamp 2010,
> because I'm sure Mike and others organizing things are stressed out in
> the final week, but here's a thought for subsequent Hacktionlab events. 
> I would like to make the serious suggestion that as payback for the last
> 20 millenia of sexism, and as a way of addressing the persistent skills
> shortages and creating a woman-friendly environment, women be forbidden
> from doing *any* maintenance work at future Hacktionlab/Barncamp events,
> because they need extra time to geek out. 
>
> That is, cooking, cleanup, etc should all be done by men, and women can
> indulge in geekery safe in the knowledge that they have no obligations
> to do anything other than be as awesome as they can be.  Let's talk
> about it at BarnCamp or in the run-up to the fall event,
>
> Yossarian
>
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