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* The attention paid to Matthew's feminist ally work relative to the work of women feminists in Free Software has been negatively commented on: "...people seem to listen to him/quote him/use him as an example regularly, because his words are more powerful, because he has a mighty penis. I wish any of the excellent resources on this subject WRITTEN BY WOMEN got half the attention his rant did." [http://damned-colonial.dreamwidth.org/28044.html?thread=305292#t305292] |
* The attention paid to Matthew's feminist ally work relative to the work of women feminists in Free Software has been negatively commented on: "...people seem to listen to him/quote him/use him as an example regularly, because his words are more powerful, because he has a mighty penis. I wish any of the excellent resources on this subject WRITTEN BY WOMEN got half the attention his rant did." [http://damned-colonial.dreamwidth.org/28044.html?thread=305292#t305292] |
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| + | * Matthew's decision to deliver a talk about behaving with a modicum of sense towards women in a session moderated by a naked man wearing a giant prosthetic penis has attracted criticism: |
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| + | ** "Please ignore the first few seconds and the man with the giant prosthetic schlong - I have no idea what’s going on there, and don’t want to know." (Hoyden About Town) |
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| + | ** "I can't help thinking that we might even, one day, go so far as to conclude that having our conference talks next to a man who is naked except for what looks like some kind of giant penis device might be a bad way to include women in our computing communities too. Maybe it's just me, though." (in [http://mjg59.livejournal.com/108956.html?thread=1339292#t1339292 Matthew's blog]) |
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Revision as of 01:03, 16 June 2009
Matthew Garrett is a Linux kernel developer and is well-known in the Linux community for his work on power management. He is an employee of Red Hat. He has a PhD in biology.
Matthew has made feminist commentary on several anti-feminist incidents in the Free Software community:
His How not to be a dick rant at LUGRadio Live was discussed in feminist blogs (for example, see transcript and a discussion at Hoyden About Town).
Criticism
- The attention paid to Matthew's feminist ally work relative to the work of women feminists in Free Software has been negatively commented on: "...people seem to listen to him/quote him/use him as an example regularly, because his words are more powerful, because he has a mighty penis. I wish any of the excellent resources on this subject WRITTEN BY WOMEN got half the attention his rant did." [1]
- Matthew's decision to deliver a talk about behaving with a modicum of sense towards women in a session moderated by a naked man wearing a giant prosthetic penis has attracted criticism:
- "Please ignore the first few seconds and the man with the giant prosthetic schlong - I have no idea what’s going on there, and don’t want to know." (Hoyden About Town)
- "I can't help thinking that we might even, one day, go so far as to conclude that having our conference talks next to a man who is naked except for what looks like some kind of giant penis device might be a bad way to include women in our computing communities too. Maybe it's just me, though." (in Matthew's blog)