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If you think they are helping the cause, feel free to support them. When the line between legitimate complaints and open insulting mocking is so fuzzy that a d
by MetaCosm 13y ago
If you think they are helping the cause, feel free to support them. When the line between legitimate complaints and open insulting mocking is so fuzzy that a developer can't tell the difference and applies that patch out of fear, I think that is an awful thing for feminism.
- quenlinlom 13y agoIt also says a lot about the current state of "feminism" (whatever no-true-scotsman definition of the word might take) is with regards to the coding community. I mean, people can no longer discern if it's a troll or a sincere "feminist" any more without resorting to picking up obvious troll e-mail addresses. (And evern then, the dev of Light Table just accepted the troll pull request.)
- codygman 13y agoThe beautiful thing is the developer need not worry about whether or not it's a legitimate complaint or "open insulting mocking"! All the developer has to worry about is: Will this positive or negatively effect X cause[1]? Will it reduce the quality of my code? 1. I think it's pretty clear that part of making github libraries more welcoming to women is having gender neutral documentation. How would you guys like reading "if her" instead of "if his"? Well, we have the privilege of that not bothering us as much since we don't have to deal with those micro-aggressions, but hopefully you get the point!