<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Well said Matt, well said. </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 29, 2024, at 3:49 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 11:17 PM Eric Parsonage <<a href="mailto:eric@eparsonage.com">eric@eparsonage.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">It's easily fixed by having a mixer at the same time for the other half of the gathering population thus showing all the population gathering matters equally.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I believe the mixer for the other half of the gathering population has been going on for decades, and is generally referred to as "drinks at the hotel lobby bar".</div><div>Just because it isn't called out by name doesn't mean that the male half of the population hasn't been meeting and mixing and mingling already for years. ;-P</div><div><br></div><div>I'm with Randy Bush on this. The stakeholders in that event should have the say in what happens with it; not the rest of us.</div><div>Those of us old white males need to check our privilege, and recognize that we've *been* having "mixers" for decades.</div><div>We don't need to put a stake in the ground and push for our equality; we've already been on the beneficiary side of the </div><div>inequality for decades.</div><div><br></div><div>Matt</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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