From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFvuK-0002P9-OU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:25:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C895E0883; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:25:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from shadow.wildlava.net (shadow.wildlava.net [67.40.138.81]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691D4E0883 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:25:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crater.wildlava.net (crater.wildlava.net [67.40.138.82]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shadow.wildlava.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D332B8F3EB for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:25:34 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4790EF19.3040106@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:25:29 -0700 From: Joe Peterson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071208) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Seeking questions for a user survey References: <20080114123348.GH5504@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <20080115150514.83634594.genone@gentoo.org> <20080117200854.GB5504@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <478FD039.5050708@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 34e21fc9-495f-43ed-87b3-356b60982c00 X-Archives-Hash: a5919f76a94f790fad496868a2eaed1b Steve Long wrote: > My apologies if I caused you any offense, Joe. I fully agree that choosing > not to have children is just as mature as deciding to procreate, and more > mature than simply drifting into parenthood. No offense taken, and I agree about the "drifting into" thing. My wife's brother asked why we are not having kids, and she asked him, in turn, why he had kids. His answer was simply, "Because it's what you do." I would have rather he said, "Because I want to be a parent." > I suppose what I am getting at is the idea that there are others in Gentoo > besides young single males. A responsible parent or a committed spouse has > a very different perspective to a teenager. Certainly my perspective now at > 37 is vastly different to when I was 18. Parenthood changed a great deal, > as did the earlier process of committing to marriage. Yep, and I'm one of the "older" devs here too (in fact, I've got you beat at 43!). Good to have a mix of ages, interests, and types of people, I think. And ashame we don't have more women. -Joe -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list