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The name alone is likely not a problem, and it’s unlikely that other Scunthorpe names will cause problems purely on the name. The authors of the project made t
by sudhirj 8y ago
The name alone is likely not a problem, and it’s unlikely that other Scunthorpe names will cause problems purely on the name.
The authors of the project made the logo misyoginost (the OO) are two globes representing breasts, and there’s reports of other juvenile work in the same vein. That’s enough to cross the line.
There was a JS testing framework called Testacular, which was also fine until attracted more male genetalia references in the libraries extracted and the documentation, at which point it wasn’t fine anymore. Called Karma now.
Just a name can be can be unintentional, a language fub or acceptably silly and whimsical. But creating and attracting artwork, words, references and trolls makes things toxic.
There is a line, and it is the anti harassment team’s job to draw it.
- ZoomZoomZoom 8y agoWhat's misogynistic in a picture representing breasts? Are they pictured in pain, or something like that?
- gros_roberts 8y agoThere is actually no such picture so no one knows, the logo has spirals, or currently, Christmas tree decorations.
- ZoomZoomZoom 8y agoI bet if you make a public poll asking what part of a human body can be represented by two spheres of glass hanging, the woman's breast will not be a winner.
- chomp 8y agoMore than that, there are some pretty bad insults, here's one that was removed: https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/228 https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/228 They then added it back with a different insult: https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/232/diffs#diff-9 https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/232/diffs... I mean I can understand the sentiment some might have that overzealous political correctness is taking over. I might be on that side of the fence if this was just purely about the name. But this is on a whole different level. Debian doesn't need to ship this if they don't want to. I personally wouldn't want to make a distro that provides my users software to install that insults them (and not a joking insult, this is just straight up poor taste). It just looks tacky, isn't necessary, and (this is biggest issue) is very insulting to certain groups of people.
- sudhirj 8y agoYeah, my bar is already pretty low. Random insults directed at me are fine, but I’m not going to ask my team to even evaluate this as viable software, because both the women and men will probably be uncomfortable with this. That’s a sad state for a technical project to be in.