FeministBSD

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To bring readers up to speed: on April 8, 2015, a Twitter user named @LadySerenaKitty posted a graphic designed to promote FreeBSD as being inclusive to all peoples. The graphic featured the FreeBSD logo (a translucent red sphere with a set of devil horns) with the following text:

FreeBSD does not care:
about your race or ethnicity
about your sexuality
about your gender
about your sex
if you are cis
if you are trans
FreeBSD only cares that you know what you are doing and if you don't, there's a huge community willing to help you learn.

First, a tiny bit of honesty. Free Software, Open Source Software, whatever your politics deems you call it, is feminist. Free software owes Feminism. Internalize it, embrace it, use it to make those who would deny it sweat just a little. By doing so, you open up all the feminist theory to work for creating a better culture. It opens up the doors to the excellent work of notable STS scholars such as Sandra Harding and Donna Haraway.

To take just one example, standpoint theory "articulates the importance of a group's experience, of a distinctive kind of collective consciousness, which can be achieved through the group's struggles to gain the kind of knowledge that they need for their projects" (Harding 2004: 36). That is to say, it is not enough simply to have minority group members around. Kristen Intemann (2010: 790), in comparing feminist empiricism with feminist standpoint epistemology, states it as "feminist empiricists have advocated for scientific communities comprised of individuals with diverse values and interests" while "[s]tandpoint feminists, on the other hand, maintain that it is diversity of social position (as opposed to diversity of values and interests) that is epistemically beneficial." I am throwing my weight behind feminist standpoint epistemology here: it will make a better science, a better technology, and a better *BSD.