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You edited your comment (for the worse in my estimation.) I was going to agree with you that we don't need to promote crassness on HN. But regardless of that,
by alexc05 11y ago
You edited your comment (for the worse in my estimation.)
I was going to agree with you that we don't need to promote crassness on HN.
But regardless of that, his isn't some sort of indication of an underlying misogyny in tech. It's more an indication of a purile, cringey, and awkward attempt at humour.
"Your mamma" jokes have nothing to do with "women's bodies."
That's reductio ad absurdum.
We can keep it classy around HN without buying into the ridiculous gender wars BS that gets thrown around on tumblr and Twitter.
- kafkaesq 11y agoYour mamma" jokes have nothing to do with "women's bodies." "Fat momma" jokes have everything to do with men's (often relentlessly juvenile) thoughts about women's bodies, and the need of some males to continually broadcast said thoughts in completely inappropriate contexts. The bottom line is that this is technical forum, and that kind of crap simply doesn't belong here. Any more than it does on, say, the title of a slide deck at a technical conference.
- alexc05 11y ago> The bottom line is that this is technical forum, and that kind of crap simply doesn't belong here. This, we agree on. The "men's thoughts" bit returns to the 'reductio' stuff. It's ridiculously under qualified. Consider more 'boys' than men, more opinions on other people's bodies than just women's. Consider both genders make jokes, judgements and, comments at the expense of others' on any number of factors (socio-economic status, hygiene, neck-beardiness, hair colour, musical taste...) People are mean. This isn't "men v. women" it's just crass, unfunny and, unwelcome.