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The comment from bertilda-lovejoy just summarizes the first-world problems very well.
by thewavelength 10y ago
The comment from bertilda-lovejoy just summarizes the first-world problems very well.
- LeoPanthera 10y agoThat's a well known troll account. Edit: New to GitHub I guess, but that name is well known on other sites.
- JFg7q8vvJMiIgpf 10y agohttps://github.com/bertilda-lovejoy?tab=activity https://github.com/bertilda-lovejoy?tab=activity That account appears to have only one comment ever.
- rosstex 10y agoYes, that is "well known" in Internet time.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoSame with new web frameworks.
- striking 10y agoWell known on YouTube and reddit.
- icebraining 10y agoI think the use of that photo of Anita Sarkeesian in troll accounts is typical, hence the confusion.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- nicklo 10y agoThat account (bertilda-lovejoy) was made 10 minutes ago, so don't get too bent out of shape over it. Its likely a mens-rights red-pill-er intentionally misrepresenting feminist values by taking them to a tone-deaf extreme in a repo thats obviously not meant to be taken seriously.
- mc42 10y agoThe profile picture for that newly created user is a photo of the (in)famous feminist "Anita Sarkeesian". (via Google Reverse Image Search)
- ivanca 10y agoActually pronouns is a more serious issue than what the profile pic feminist (Anita S.) actually complains about in real life, such as lack of men butts in videogames[0] (no, I'm not joking) [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujTufg1GvR4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujTufg1GvR4
- cwmoo740 10y agoBertilda Lovejoy made a name for himself by writing outrageous YouTube comments. I don't know if this is the same person, but it's not coincidental that they chose that name here.
- RodericDay 10y agoShe has always been a manufactured character, including those YouTube comments.
- wyager 10y agoI'm pretty sure it's one of those Reddit joke YouTube accounts. They don't have a political motivation, they're just trolling.
- Phil_Latio 10y agoNice trigger haha
- icebraining 10y agoI actually thought that comment was (probably accidentally) great. On one hand it pokes fun at the current feminist discourse without being crass, while at the same time it's actually true: the thinking at the time was quite sexist and these documents are necessarily a product of that, and we shouldn't let admiration blind us to it.
- 2muchcoffeeman 10y agoI always thought the masculine pronoun was used when talking about people as a collective since we sometimes refer to ourselves as "mankind". They do that in this document, so we thus use "men", "he" etc to be consistent. I wouldn't use "she" as a collective noun unless I also used a more neutral "humankind" or something. But really I prefer to use "they". I suppose the time at which the US constitution was written was much more sexist than it is now, but I always thought it read fairly neutrally.
- icebraining 10y agoOh, I'm not talking about pronouns, but about the underlying ideas, and the disregard for women as independent citizens. For example, the 19th Amendment was passed less than a century ago. And there's Scalia's argument[1] that the 14th Amendment doesn't prohibit discrimination by gender or sexual orientation; we find the implications appalling, but was he wrong? In any case, it's mostly a matter of having caution when reading these works, since their importance might cloud our judgment. [1] http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/256401/does-constitution-protect-against-sex-discrimination-john-yoo http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/256401/does-constitutio...
- unclenoriega 10y agoI was taught to use masculine collective pronouns as well, but 'mankind' is perhaps not the best example. It dates to Old English, when 'man' was a gender-neutral term meaning 'human'. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=man&allowed_in_frame=0 http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=man&allowed_in_fram...
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- nommm-nommm 10y agoThat's just a troll.
- ivanca 10y agoTroll is just the name we give to the sarcasm we dislike.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoNo, that literally is just a troll https://reddit.com/r/RedditArmie/comments/2g29ft/the_youtube_rose_couple_didnt_like_the_fact_that/ https://reddit.com/r/RedditArmie/comments/2g29ft/the_youtube...