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Re:C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language by ddellacosta on Friday December 13, 2013 @10:01PM (#6904384)
It's mind-boggling that someone has spent so much time on this when they could instead have been creating something useful, meaningful, or, at the least, actually funny.
Re:C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language by vezzy-fnord on Friday December 13, 2013 @11:33PM (#6904628)
It's just substitution macros for the C++ preprocessor that was probably churned out in no more than 20 minutes (by members of /g/).

The README was collaboratively written by /pol/ viewers.

Actually funny? I thought this was hilarious. Perhaps not if you're unfamiliar with extreme SJW rhetoric, or if you sympathize with it. Either way, it did cause a stir all over the web (especially Reddit), but not here.

Re:C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language by fedups on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:44AM (#6904791)
The HN patriarchy killed the links off pretty quickly

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6903584

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6899946

Re:C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language by yetanotherphd on Friday December 13, 2013 @11:41PM (#6904654)
What you find funny depends a lot on your view of the subject matter. I am not a feminist (in that I don't consider women to be people), and so I found the site quite humorous. Similarly, I don't find feminist web-comics to be funny.
Re:C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language by true_religion on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:11AM (#6904721)
Poe's law is strongly in effect here.
Re:C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language by yetanotherphd on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:38AM (#6904780)
Let me clarify. I am not a feminist but I do consider women to be people. I was making a reference to the common claim that being a feminist is equivalent to considering women to be people.
Re:C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language by icetan498 on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:04AM (#6904708)
I agree. It's a shame that instead of people creating something useful, everyone has to create an "environment that's inviting to womyn" and make sure all their work is "gender neutral and non-sexist."