Re: First draft of the Emacs website

[David Kastrup]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

emacs-devel: whenever you need it, someone will be there to prove you
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-- 
David Kastrup