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That's because sexism is about special rights towards women, and not equal rights. If women cannot find legitimate complaints (which do exist a plenty in compu

• Udo 15y ago
  That's because sexism is about special rights towards women, and not equal rights. That's where you're wrong. Sexism is a process of gender discrimination and it's tied to the cultural philosophy of the person doing it. The perception (or allegation) of sexism is comes from the feeling an action invokes in the mind of the recipient. I wonder if the sexism label is doing more harm than good when it comes to eradicating the underlying problem. When I read about the "manly testing interface for Python" I clearly got the feeling this was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, perhaps written by an adolescent after one beer too many. But yeah, at the same time I thought it was a really odd theme or identity for a programming project to have. I can see how it would be off-putting. It's often difficult to know how a written statement was meant to come out, especially if you don't know the author. My beef at this point would be with the project description not so much the name itself, because it seems to employ the tired cliche of hardcore things being manly. On the other hand, it's probably meant to be a joke. Which is all fine until a female developer comes along and interprets it as "fuck this, the author clearly doesn't want me to use it", or until a male developer reads it and thinks "screw this, I'm not taking lessons in gender identity from you"