Re:FSF Announces Librephone Project
by FirmwareBurner on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @06:14AM
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>It's a super sexist comment.
Is it?
To answer this, just reverse the genders in the statement and see if it's still sexist.
"It's very masculine and obviously doesn't work that well"
Yeah I think it’s fair to say that in many circumstances people would use masculine as a pejorative and not get called out for being sexist. There’s some historic power imbalance stuff at play there, but it’s still sexist.
If you have problems with some type of behaviour it’s much better to say exactly what they are rather than appealing to some platonic notion of sex characteristics, which is both offensive and poorly communicates your position.
Yes - why are these adjectives even coming up at all? There are alternatives that would probably make your point in a succinct manner without being sexist.
Yeah, that's still sexist. Was that your point, because it kinda feels like you're presenting this as a gotcha or something...
Re:FSF Announces Librephone Project
by sharpshadow on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:24AM
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You are as sexist as Zuckerberg[0] looking for more masculinity in leadership.
0. https://fortune.com/2025/01/13/zuckerberg-says-companies-nee...
Re:FSF Announces Librephone Project
by FirmwareBurner on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:52PM
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You're a genuine Tylenol baby if that's the conclusion you arrived
Re:FSF Announces Librephone Project
by sharpshadow on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @04:40PM
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Feminine and masculine can be gender independent traits, the comment was sarcastic.
Criticizing a woman for failure because of femininity falls nonetheless more into sexism than actual criticism of actions taken.
Compare and contrast this:
> Say what you want about the Stalleman type he was very inspiring and had real leadership. So a lot of hackers followed him in his crazy vision and that gave us a lot.
With this:
> It is very feminine and obviously doesn't work that well.
It's a super sexist comment. A comment born in the 60s, or I guess in our geek land, still in 2025.