Re:Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
by Topgamer7 on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:23PM
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Excuse me sir, you've committed a thought crime for not following propaganda guidelines on independent thought and expression.
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You have violated the CoC by presuming to use the honorific "sir", thus promoting gender opression!
Re:Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
by DaiPlusPlus on Friday October 30, 2020 @04:15PM
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FWIW I've got a female friend who was in enlisted the US Navy and she spoke of female naval officers who were addressed as "Sir" rather than "Ma'am" (though most went by "Ma'am").
So I don't know how to feel about anything anymore.
That's a common trope in sci-fi -- I think Star Trek TNG and Battlestar Gallactica had the female officers addressed as "sir".
We can criticize this specific instance of CoC enforcement without making fun of legitimate gender issues in technology.
Re:Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
by franga2000 on Friday October 30, 2020 @06:38PM
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Not OP, but I don't think they were making fun of the legitimate issues. There have been plenty of instances of pronoun-related overreactions in and outside the tech sector - see the recent-ish StackOverflow mess for an example. There are obviously many issues, but there are also many overblown non-issues and I don't see much harm in making fun of those.
Re:Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
by suckitfuckers on Saturday October 31, 2020 @11:46AM
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Some people make jokes and don't realize the effect they have on the people who have to be the victims of those comments day in and day out. I'm sorry if that's not easy to understand. These are the same people who think women don't belong in tech, or that people who choose pronouns are "snowflakes". It's why we don't have as many women in tech and it really needs to stop.