Re:C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language
by ddellacosta on Friday December 13, 2013 @10:01PM
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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.
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Re:C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language
by vezzy-fnord on Friday December 13, 2013 @11:33PM
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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
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The HN patriarchy killed the links off pretty quickly
Re:C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language
by yetanotherphd on Friday December 13, 2013 @11:41PM
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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
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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
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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
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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."