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nope, you've just got an expensive one. that's standard issue. =)
by joelackner 16y ago
nope, you've just got an expensive one. that's standard issue. =)
- dave1619 16y agoi'd say keeper with style.
- spacemanaki 16y agoWhy was this upvoted over 90 times? This and its siblings are all pretty sexist comments.
- muppetman 16y agoBecause it made us laugh. It's not attacking an individual or being sexist towards an individual. It's funny. Sorry if you disagree.
- capstone 16y agoSo... joking about blacks being [racist stereotype] on a majority-white website is ok because (a) it makes the majority laugh and (b) it's not making fun of any one black person individually? Please explain your logic here.
- alextgordon 16y agoIt seems wrong to apply logic to people's perceptions of humour and offensiveness, since perceptions are rarely logical. But going with this, if the person telling this same joke were black, would that be OK? Or equivalently, are there classes of jokes that may only be told by black people? (also I feel I should point out that jokes about race tend not to be equivalent in offensiveness to jokes about sex, so this whole premise is largely irrelevant)
- AndyKelley 16y agoI think those jokes are acceptable. I think racist jokes are funny, and that includes jokes that make fun of my own race. We laugh at absurdity, and one thing that's pretty absurd is racism.
- muppetman 16y agoI accept that my attempt to justify such humour was wrong. That said, I stand behind my main point which is the reason it was being voted up was because people were amused by it.
- benmathes 16y agoDisclaimer: I love women. As a heterosexual male, I don't have much choice! While these comments are sexist, that doesn't necessarily make them incorrect.
- xuki 16y agoIt makes majority of HN feel good =)
- crux_ 16y agoBecause news.yc is a pretty sexist environment. I've been biting my (virtual) tongue, holding back the same observation that you made.
- davi 16y agobecause jokes are now accepted on HN and S/N for jokes is frequently low and jokes are frequently divisive and lots of people will give a quick upvote to something that gives them a reward for reading (i.e. makes them laugh) and evaporative cooling and yadda yadda yadda
- rokhayakebe 16y agoLighten up it's Monday. Edit: The first one was actually a compliment to the wife. The second one was meant as a joke, just as all women joke about men not being too smart.
- Dylanlacey 16y agoThat shits me SO much, because of how any similar "Women are incompetent" jokes are vilified. Is it blanket OK or blanket not OK? You can't argue that it's OK for one sex to insult another, but not the reverse, it just doesn't work that way.
- rokhayakebe 16y agoWell, maybe it's me, but I can talk shit to my friends and vis versa without touching each others ego. Frankly it only hurts if it is true.
- kasuino 16y agoPerfectly ok bc men enjoy social privilege. Come back when you are considered joint property by society as a whole, stupid.
- blurry 16y agoOver the years, I've had about a dozen close girlfriends and hundreds of casual girls-night-out buddies. Not once do I remember anyone joking about men not being too smart. Where do you get your "all women, always" from?
- rokhayakebe 16y agoI hear it constantly.
- blurry 16y agoAre these your friends or your family? If it's the former, time to find new friends. If it's the latter, a dysfunctional family doesn't need to warp your sense of what the rest of the world is like.
- xentronium 16y agoI'd rather ask why the article was voted so much. It's a very funny but useless anecdote. /takes off his snobbish cape
- mcritz 16y agoI submitted the article because it reminded me of a pattern of good-spirited customer service I've had from Apple. It's a lesson in how to treat customers in a way that rewards their humanity. The end result is that this guy and his wife will likely be Apple customers for life. That's likely upwards of 30 years of loyalty for the cost of a single iPad. I'm sorry I didn't add this comment the moment I submitted the story, but I figured most people would take away what they came with. Good question! And feel free to stay skeptical and have high standards. Let your snob flag fly!
- ebaysucks 16y agoIf you only knew how women talk about us...
- blurry 16y ago"Us" men vs. "them" women? Is HN officially a boys' club? I hope not.
- Helianthus16 16y agoI am curious about your opinion of this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351266 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351266 It seems to me that both jokes are in the same vein: referencing a satirical husband-wife power stereotype. But no one is complaining about the male stereotype.
- mkramlich 16y agoit's funny. it has an element of truth to it one can recognize if you live long enough. HN is mostly male and the software development profession is overwhelmingly male. no harm, no foul. plus I'm sure there are jokes women can make about men which are also based around a core of truth. no worries. :)
- patio11 16y agoThis is creeping Redditization: it's based on it being a boys' club in here, it isn't particularly funny, and we can expect to hear it and variations repeated in every thread forever if this behavior is rewarded.
- anthonyb 16y agoPerhaps it's some sort of honeypot by pg to try and increase the signal to noise ratio, ie. everyone who voted that comment up gets blacklisted from HN. That's what I'd do if I were king :)
- JonnieCache 16y agoThis is the most machiavellian idea I have ever heard around internet community management. You can mercilessly enforce policies while appearing to do nothing at all. Except you dont blacklist them, you just reduce the influence of their votes in the ranking algorithm.
- anthonyb 16y agoYou say "tomato", I say "fetch the trebuchet"
- statictype 16y agoJust flag the story. It's practically a magnet for these types of comments and doesn't offer anything else interesting anyway.