Re:Blatant racism & sexism in open source code
by coldtea on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @06:35AM
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Yes, I can see how using "buttfuck", "fag" and "bitch" in your source code is "blatant sexism".
After all, as we all know, all coders are mature 30+ year old professionals, that if they use a swear word they REALLY mean it, and use it to further their agenda and their bigotry towards women/homosexuals/etc. Instead of, you know, all kinds of immature teenagers that watch South Park and Family Guy until their late 20s, enjoy fart jokes and think they're grown up when they swear, etc.
Wanna fight sexism? How about you go fight Hollywood, music industry videoclips or the fashion industry? That's 90% of established sexism right there. And it involves women in sexy lingerie doing dance moves (as if women are sexual merchandise), not some code on GitHub with a "bitch" variable.
They do have a point with "nigger" word though (or not -- as a European without a colonial past --the reverse in fact-- I fail to see why the word guilt trips the very society who not only committed but still commits crimes against their black people. Sounds quite hypocritical to me: "OK we do all this horrible stuff to blacks as a society and we don't even blink about it, but god forbid someone says the n word, we'll lynch him on the spot.").
After all, as we all know, all coders are mature 30+ year old professionals, that if they use a swear word they REALLY mean it, and use it to further their agenda and their bigotry towards women/homosexuals/etc. Instead of, you know, all kinds of immature teenagers that watch South Park and Family Guy until their late 20s, enjoy fart jokes and think they're grown up when they swear, etc.
Wanna fight sexism? How about you go fight Hollywood, music industry videoclips or the fashion industry? That's 90% of established sexism right there. And it involves women in sexy lingerie doing dance moves (as if women are sexual merchandise), not some code on GitHub with a "bitch" variable.
They do have a point with "nigger" word though (or not -- as a European without a colonial past --the reverse in fact-- I fail to see why the word guilt trips the very society who not only committed but still commits crimes against their black people. Sounds quite hypocritical to me: "OK we do all this horrible stuff to blacks as a society and we don't even blink about it, but god forbid someone says the n word, we'll lynch him on the spot.").