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  • From: Gina Norman <gina AT vnet.net>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: interesting digital divide forum
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:28:25 -0400 (EDT)



On the whole "recruiting minorities" theme:

Maybe I'm the only one, but if I were a "recruited minority" I would be
sorta "ooked-out" (that is the technical term, BTW). For example, if
Internetworkers had been primarily blondes, and someone had asked me about
joining the group 'cause they needed more redheads, I would've been
slightly offended.

Don't you want me for me? The idea that I was invited (and in a sense,
used) to fufill some strange haircolor quota (or assuage some blonde's
historical haircolor guilt... the prosecution of redheads throughout the
ages is a true, though little-known, fact) would be distressing to me.

I don't even like the idea that some blonde individual (in a perhaps
well-motivated attempt to increase their personal diversity quotient)
would want to meet me *because* I'm a redhead. Because I'm funny, sure.
Smart, great. 'Cause I can make a killer pound cake or know how to tango,
super.

But just because of the color of my hair. ew.

THIS IS JUST MY OPINION!!! YMMV!!!

: )

-gina


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confused and befuddled by the overwheming monstrosities of my life, causes
a default to the simplest and most pleasant of thoughts. Like Marshmallow
Peeps. I *like* Marshmallow Peeps.

Gina Norman And the only bit that
gina AT vnet.net (me personally) really matters:
ginanorm AT nortelnetworks.com (me at work) http://users.vnet.net/gina
gina AT earthling.net (me personally, again -- sick of me yet? ;)
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