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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: First draft of the Emacs website |
Date: | Fri, 4 Dec 2015 14:26:58 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 |
On 12/04/2015 02:44 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
The Emacs developer list is less frequented by women in my impression than the average gay bar. In Victorian England.
I'm afraid you'll need a better analogy, as it was reasonably common for women to *run* the gay bars and meeting houses in Victorian England. For example, see Martha Stacey's well-known house in Wakefield Street, Bloomsbury, circa 1870. Going back further in time, perhaps the best-known molly-house in all of pre-Victorian England was the one run by Margarat Clap in Field Lane, Holborn, circa 1725.
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