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It's definitely cringe-worthy that all the graphics are not replicated in ASCII art to support command-line only browsers. How insensitive! With lower-resolutio
by jayliew 9y ago
It's definitely cringe-worthy that all the graphics are not replicated in ASCII art to support command-line only browsers. How insensitive! With lower-resolution ASCII-art, the models can be made to look more gender neutral, IMHO.
- lathiat 9y agoI feel like I've seen more gender-obvious ascii art than other kinds of ascii art
- jayliew 9y agoUpon further thought, I propose a new HTTP header sent from browsers to the web servers: 1) the gender the end-user identifies with, or lack thereof 2) the end-user's sexual partner preference, or lack thereof With this HTTP header info, the web server can then display the most politically correct ASCII image, plus the most optimal sales conversion rate for this product #win-win
- dddddaviddddd 9y agoTime to make a IETF RFC
- drdaeman 9y agoHeaders? Protocols? Today we create JavaScript DOM APIs for this kind of stuff. A general all-purpose API to collect, persist and negotiate user preferences... WebPreferences sounds about right. /s
- majewsky 9y ago> A general all-purpose API to collect, persist and negotiate user preferences I thought that one was called Facebook.
- epx 9y agoPrefix all these headers with swj_ or sjw- :)
- GunlogAlm 9y agoGood idea, so they can safely be ignored.
- epx 9y agoI thought something along the lines of an extension that pops up "don't buy anything from these !@#$*("
- btym 9y agoI propose a new internet metric, to complement TTD: TTAS (time-to-anti-SJW). It will be a count of how many messages/replies it takes for someone to bring out the term "SJW" (this could be expanded on, for example, a "strawman" scaling factor inversely proportional to how related the original topic is to feminism or civil rights).
- jasonmp85 9y agoI hate this website so much. EDIT: To be clear, I'm talking about all these comments on HN thinking they're hilarious by making fun of "political correctness" or "SJWs" or whatever the vogue thing for self-styled obnoxious individuals to make fun of is. The keypad website is amusing.
- lotyrin 9y agoLife gets better when you realize that on any polar issue, both side will have vocal extremist idiots and it can be amusing to poke fun at the whole lot of them, regardless of one's personal position.
- Frondo 9y agoI don't think "politically correct" means what you think it means. Your use in this context doesn't make sense (e.g. a person's preferred sexual partner is not a matter of "political correctness," nor is their gender identity).
- dang 9y agoWould you please not post flamebait to HN? We have enough trouble without it, and like most attempts to be funny, this is not as funny as it thinks it is.
- jayliew 9y agosorry about that; honestly not flame-baiting. I do generally think that better ad targeting means, well, an advertising copy that is more relevant to the actual end-user. As opposed to sending a totally irrelevant and wrongly targeted and offensive message to the wrong person. But I also do think the issue is around the balancing of privacy needs--and that's a tricky balancing act. TLDR: not trying to flame-bait, but I can see how it might have come across as such
- trumpownsyou420 9y agoLOL so good.