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How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE? The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the

by gortok 1y ago

How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE? The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting. Luckily we’ve gotten away from the locker room behavior being the median and now the median is approaching good-manners behavior. This is one of the situations where the Overton window shifting makes us better as a species instead of worse.

msgodel 1y ago
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- n_plus_1_acc 1y ago
  I have reported your homophobic comment.
  - selcuka 1y ago
    Interesting. How is that comment homophobic? Might be factually incorrect, but not homophobic. Quite the contrary, it implies that women prefer looking at women too.
- toxican 1y ago
  Why would you assume other men want to see that shit either? It's weird, creepy, unprofessional, and weird and creepy. Mostly weird and creepy though. Like are you so lonely and horny that you need to plaster your shit with half-naked women?
  - doublerabbit 1y ago
    None of those things. I personally laugh at it for shits and giggles. "Andy, lol." It's not weird, nor creepy. Unprofessional maybe, but it's a developers morning shit post and humorous for its time. 1999. Stop applying the future on to past antics. If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune.
    - toxican 1y ago
      > If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune. No, that would be fucking weird too, dude.
      - doublerabbit 1y ago
        To you perhaps. I would still find it lol worthy. What makes it "weird" to you? It's ASCII art, non threatening, and compared to the degraded stuff you can find online is none of that. What about anthropomorphic animals is that weird to you because I find that idealisation more creepy than a half topless naked woman.
      - soulofmischief 1y ago
        What's weird is how we're taught that the human body is uniquely something to be ashamed of.
- jcranmer 1y ago
  Even if you restrict yourself to talking about men, asexual and gay men exist. And honestly, I suspect that such people are more common among developers than among the base population.
  - msgodel 1y ago
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    - jcranmer 1y ago
      Funny that I and my coworkers have figured out how to make the office not an "unpleasant sterile place" without doing so in a way that alienates so many classes of people.
    - toxican 1y ago
      Oh yeah it's so unpleasant not having to see creepy and gross shit in the work place because some horny dork never grew up. Gosh won't someone please think of the incels?!
      - redeeman 1y ago
        ascii cart nude woman is "gross"? What is it about yourself that makes you uncomfortable with this?
    - fennecbutt 1y ago
      As a gay man lmao no that's not the reason. Don't get salty just because you can't make homophobic jokes anymore. When it comes to sexual openness, kinks, volume of sex, etc us gayz/queers got you beat by a long, long shot. We generally aren't prudes at all.
- keoneflick 1y ago
  >I think everyone can agree women are nicer to look at How is this toxic bullshit upvoted on HN. What the actual fuck. No everyone does not agree with your bullshit.
doublerabbit 1y ago
> How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE I already do, it's called VSCode and it definitely operates like a phallus.
MyPasswordSucks 1y ago
> How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE? Once again: So what? > The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting. I'm part of this "median" you seem to hold in such high regard. If you try to silence all data points outside your preconceived notion of what the "median" view is, then what you have there isn't a median, but just a few vocal people who happen to be on your side.
1970-01-01 1y ago
>makes us better as a species instead of worse. IMHO it's made the world worse. We're not sterile robots. To deny us mischievous ASCII art is to deny the very things that make us human. Bring on the IDE penis. Make it widescreen if you like. It's not nearly as offensive as having a censoring big brother overlord telling us what is and isn't acceptable for the workers' enjoyment.
fennecbutt 1y ago
As a gay dude, I'd have no problems at all with this out of a garage game developer. And any reasonably well adjusted straight male would probably get a good laugh out of the art, same as I would. We now live in a world where female colleagues can speak in whispers about how a male colleague is hot/attractive, but male colleagues cannot engage in the same behaviour. Trust me, I know. Because of media stereotypes about gays most female colleagues don't have any problem engaging in "girl talk" once they know I'm gay. Like damn I don't care, I'm just a dude.

by gortok 1y ago

msgodel 1y ago

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n_plus_1_acc 1y ago
I have reported your homophobic comment.
- selcuka 1y ago
  Interesting. How is that comment homophobic? Might be factually incorrect, but not homophobic. Quite the contrary, it implies that women prefer looking at women too.
toxican 1y ago
Why would you assume other men want to see that shit either? It's weird, creepy, unprofessional, and weird and creepy. Mostly weird and creepy though. Like are you so lonely and horny that you need to plaster your shit with half-naked women?
- doublerabbit 1y ago
  None of those things. I personally laugh at it for shits and giggles. "Andy, lol." It's not weird, nor creepy. Unprofessional maybe, but it's a developers morning shit post and humorous for its time. 1999. Stop applying the future on to past antics. If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune.
  - toxican 1y ago
    > If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune. No, that would be fucking weird too, dude.
    - doublerabbit 1y ago
      To you perhaps. I would still find it lol worthy. What makes it "weird" to you? It's ASCII art, non threatening, and compared to the degraded stuff you can find online is none of that. What about anthropomorphic animals is that weird to you because I find that idealisation more creepy than a half topless naked woman.
    - soulofmischief 1y ago
      What's weird is how we're taught that the human body is uniquely something to be ashamed of.
jcranmer 1y ago
Even if you restrict yourself to talking about men, asexual and gay men exist. And honestly, I suspect that such people are more common among developers than among the base population.
- msgodel 1y ago
  [flagged]
  - jcranmer 1y ago
    Funny that I and my coworkers have figured out how to make the office not an "unpleasant sterile place" without doing so in a way that alienates so many classes of people.
  - toxican 1y ago
    Oh yeah it's so unpleasant not having to see creepy and gross shit in the work place because some horny dork never grew up. Gosh won't someone please think of the incels?!
    - redeeman 1y ago
      ascii cart nude woman is "gross"? What is it about yourself that makes you uncomfortable with this?
  - fennecbutt 1y ago
    As a gay man lmao no that's not the reason. Don't get salty just because you can't make homophobic jokes anymore. When it comes to sexual openness, kinks, volume of sex, etc us gayz/queers got you beat by a long, long shot. We generally aren't prudes at all.
keoneflick 1y ago
>I think everyone can agree women are nicer to look at How is this toxic bullshit upvoted on HN. What the actual fuck. No everyone does not agree with your bullshit.

doublerabbit 1y ago

> How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE I already do, it's called VSCode and it definitely operates like a phallus.

MyPasswordSucks 1y ago

> How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE? Once again: So what? > The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting. I'm part of this "median" you seem to hold in such high regard. If you try to silence all data points outside your preconceived notion of what the "median" view is, then what you have there isn't a median, but just a few vocal people who happen to be on your side.

1970-01-01 1y ago

>makes us better as a species instead of worse. IMHO it's made the world worse. We're not sterile robots. To deny us mischievous ASCII art is to deny the very things that make us human. Bring on the IDE penis. Make it widescreen if you like. It's not nearly as offensive as having a censoring big brother overlord telling us what is and isn't acceptable for the workers' enjoyment.

fennecbutt 1y ago

As a gay dude, I'd have no problems at all with this out of a garage game developer. And any reasonably well adjusted straight male would probably get a good laugh out of the art, same as I would. We now live in a world where female colleagues can speak in whispers about how a male colleague is hot/attractive, but male colleagues cannot engage in the same behaviour. Trust me, I know. Because of media stereotypes about gays most female colleagues don't have any problem engaging in "girl talk" once they know I'm gay. Like damn I don't care, I'm just a dude.