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Re:What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in sour... by b59831 on Saturday October 05, 2024 @06:43PM (#41753456)
This is a sexist statement
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Re:What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in sour... by kortilla on Saturday October 05, 2024 @07:33PM (#41753650)
It’s a discussion about a sexist environment. Catch up
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Re:What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in sour... by danaris on Saturday October 05, 2024 @07:04PM (#41753536)
Describing the factual sexist environment that existed in a prior time (or, hell, the ones that exist today) is not itself sexist.
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Re:What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in sour... by cgriswald on Saturday October 05, 2024 @07:57PM (#41753728)
It’s a fact the environment was sexist.

Everything else is speculation unless their is some evidence that women’s complaints were the driving factor of a change in policy rather than, say, the infantilization of women or a sexist expectation that women would take exception to it.

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Re:What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in sour... by jckahn on Saturday October 05, 2024 @06:59PM (#41753525)
How so?
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Re:What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in sour... by RichardCA on Sunday October 06, 2024 @12:50PM (#41758398)
Very sexist. Women were not only expected to never cuss, but also to pretend as if they had never even heard such awful words.

https://youtu.be/Cq-If5vVvcc

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