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It's mentioned (quoted) in the github thread. It was a "joke" about women and age. Date.today Date.today +1 # no error, but wrong result! # Maybe

It's mentioned (quoted) in the github thread. It was a "joke" about women and age. Date.today Date.today +1 # no error, but wrong result! # Maybe this has been written for women, having calculated their age ;)

tiahura 5y ago
I’m literally shaking.
- hallway_monitor 5y ago
  You should put on a jacket
BuyMyBitcoins 5y ago
That’s a mild “ha ha” kind of joke I’d expect to see on a joke-a-day cartoon calendar.
- hallway_monitor 5y ago
  Right. Definitely stupid and probably a stretch to call it sexist. Would something like this really get you banned from a mailing list?
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  - seoulmetro 5y ago
    Something doesn't have to exist as a certain quality for a subset of people to determine that it may be perceived as "too much a likeness of some THING". In short: You can be banned for talking about pasta in a noodles forum. That doesn't mean pasta is not a noodle. It's not sexist. Them banning it as sexist does not make it sexist. Every day I wake up to the programming community becoming more pretend, more fake, more toxic and less open. Ironically the very thing it is trying to distance itself from.
Fellshard 5y ago
The example is so anodyne and the pattern of CoC changes so regular that I can't help but expect that this was opportunistic - waiting for any such example to jump on and institute these changes. The goal is to grant all offend/ed/ parties total, unimpeachable power against purported offend/ers/, and no amount of 'protected classes' cover removes the fact that this enables the same bad faith that harassing parties abuse, just for a different group. Hold everyone to the same high standard. Period. Done. None of this thumb-on-the-scales nonsense.
jhhh 5y ago
You're right. I clicked through to the (two) tweet threads for rationale and didn't scroll far enough in the git thread.
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jeltz 5y ago
Ok, so unfunny sexism. Why not just tell the user to stop it? I do not see why this required a rules change.

tiahura 5y ago

I’m literally shaking.

hallway_monitor 5y ago
You should put on a jacket

BuyMyBitcoins 5y ago

That’s a mild “ha ha” kind of joke I’d expect to see on a joke-a-day cartoon calendar.

hallway_monitor 5y ago
Right. Definitely stupid and probably a stretch to call it sexist. Would something like this really get you banned from a mailing list?
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- seoulmetro 5y ago
  Something doesn't have to exist as a certain quality for a subset of people to determine that it may be perceived as "too much a likeness of some THING". In short: You can be banned for talking about pasta in a noodles forum. That doesn't mean pasta is not a noodle. It's not sexist. Them banning it as sexist does not make it sexist. Every day I wake up to the programming community becoming more pretend, more fake, more toxic and less open. Ironically the very thing it is trying to distance itself from.

Fellshard 5y ago

The example is so anodyne and the pattern of CoC changes so regular that I can't help but expect that this was opportunistic - waiting for any such example to jump on and institute these changes. The goal is to grant all offend/ed/ parties total, unimpeachable power against purported offend/ers/, and no amount of 'protected classes' cover removes the fact that this enables the same bad faith that harassing parties abuse, just for a different group. Hold everyone to the same high standard. Period. Done. None of this thumb-on-the-scales nonsense.

jhhh 5y ago

You're right. I clicked through to the (two) tweet threads for rationale and didn't scroll far enough in the git thread.

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jeltz 5y ago

Ok, so unfunny sexism. Why not just tell the user to stop it? I do not see why this required a rules change.