I assumed you were saying hello to us in a personable way that most are scared to, hence why they hide themselves behind the internet. It’s incredibly gutless & weak AF when you really think about it - hide behind www anonymity and then lash out & criticize others for doing what you yourself will not do.
Personally, I found great value in your post (humor, puting a face to the name etc) and zero value in the peanut gallery’s response. Your action was not dumb. Dumb would have been posting your credit card number on here or sending cash money in todays age of PP or emailing a Nigerian prince your social security number . Lol
Your humanity & how you express it is never dumb. The only lesson to be pulled from this is that as bravenly [sic] as you may express yourself, there will always be some sad little toadie ready to try and crap all over what your healthy male ego projects.
Never apologize for this. You owe these smug, emasculating, little toads absolutely nothing. You do you and the toadies can kick rocks.
Wowwww. With all that off-topic name-flinging:
are you for real?
If one cannot punch up (when one finds themselves atop the heap), then whatever one falls back to instead,
try not to punch down. The punch-down never works as a move of the high road, and it betrays the soft-footing and brittleness one feels for their own lofty station. 🙋♀️
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Just a thing for y’all to mull over in your own time: it’s unwise to behave as if the Early Intel Macs and PowerPC Macs forums are “sausage fests”.
[Women, including me, like to work with and use vintage Apple gear for our many and varied projects (for me, it’s film photo archival work, writing, sound engineering, DJing, occasional streaming, and tinkering). We already know we’re a quantitative minority when we choose to engage in most, if not all technology-based discussions. To mock what we post, even if indirectly, doesn’t do much to enrich the quality of knowledge which we —
all MR forum members — all voluntarily bring, share and, exchange on here when some folks try to make the room a bit less welcoming for an underrepresented population. Doing so loses us in the long run, and the quality of knowledge shared suffers for it.
[I know a lot of us want to read these discussions without reminders of how we’re presumed to not be in the room or relegated to lurking wallflowers. After all, you
want the best and the brightest minds to eke out more from our vintage gear, right? Frequently, the best and the brightest minds happen to be with women and non-binary folks. And if we hazard to speak up on something which deviates from the forums’ remit (as Nicole did), then it’s maybe a prudent plan to listen and not to mock us, or to throw around epithets as a way to mock us and render us less welcomed to these forum discussions.
[Again, this offers food for thought for those of you who find yourselves quick at punching downward.]
