From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751200Ab3GXKeG (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:34:06 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:39814 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751005Ab3GXKeE (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:34:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:33:56 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Francesca V." Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Speaking out against Sarah Sharp Message-ID: <20130724103356.GC30932@pd.tnic> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:49:19AM -0600, Francesca V. wrote: > Sarah Sharp recently posted a tirade about verbal abuse on here and > her blog - where she dismisses all comments disagreeing with her as > being from trolls, and deletes them - and takes pride in being > "accidentally racist", when she's not attention-whoring on the LKML. > > I want to say, as a female developer: Sarah Sharp is not > representative of us. She's not representative of the women at Intel. > She's not representative of women in technology. > > She's a bully. She bullies her husband. She dismisses bullying of her > coworkers. (Google: 'intel kick me'). And she's trying to bully Linus. > > I know he's a big boy. But dare I say, Linus is too nice to tell this > drama queen to bugger off. > > No one was talking to her. Linus' 'Shut the fuck up' was to a > developer who refused to take responsibility for his code, and blamed > someone else's code. It was deserved criticism. Then, Linus went and > explained just that: > > "Similarly, you will see fireworks if some long-term maintainer makes > excuses for breaking user space etc. That will make me go into > incoherent rages." > > Which is exactly what the emails held up as "verbal abuse" show. > > Sarah's exclaiming how she won't take any of this abuse, yet no one > was directing any of it at her. It's sickening she's got nothing > better to do then stick her nose in and decide to dictate to her > betters how to behave. Yes I said her betters: We all run Linux. Not > Sarax. > > Sarah justifies pissing in the Linux sandbox because Intel 'pays her' > to develop kernel drivers. Perhaps her direct manager might rethink > this decision in light of how she's representing Intel in her "off" > time. > > To Linus: You're a hero to many of us. Don't change. Please. You DO > NOT need to take time away from doing code to grow a pair of breasts > and judge people's emotional states: > > "It does not matter if your cursing fits have causes. The fact is that > if you misjudge someone's emotional state for the day, you yelling at > them is not productive." > > As a woman, I couldn't be silent and stand by while Sarah bullied and > assaulted this list with her profanity and self-indulgent narcissism. > She's the problem. Not you. Not your style of communication. We > technical women appreciate being treated equally by our male peers, > with blunt directness and unambiguous criticism. We are not fragile > flowers. I don't know if you're for real but if you are, you just hit the nail on the head! I only wish this would've come earlier and put a timely end to this kindergarten bullshit. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --