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Are you winding me up? Was man also misogynistic? Besides: curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org

by lhnz 13y ago

endymi0n 13y ago
it's actually the first thing a feminist programmer adds to her .bashrc: alias woman="man"
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- oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
  Please, "their .bashrc" :-)
chrisrhoden 13y ago
> Was man also misogynistic? man is short for manual. What is bro short for?
- dictum 13y ago
  Brother. (I couldn't resist.)
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- nailer 13y ago
  Same as chairman, they're all short for manus, which is 'hand' in Latin.
- cdcarter 13y ago
  Brochure. Which, despite the tounge-in-cheek joke I was trying to make, actually tends to be a shorter and more example driven document about a product.
  - zhemao 13y ago
    That's actually hilarious. Very clever. I don't think the people complaining about the name in this thread will appreciate the joke, though.
mtrimpe 13y ago
You're shitting us right? Manpages referred to manuals, not men. But given that I'm obviously swimming against the tide here at HN I'll just cave ..... Word, brah! Like, totally right on! We should be making like 'sispages' next with like only explanations and shit. Get it? For like the sissy-grammers! Awesome dude. You da bomb!
- lhnz 13y ago
  Yes, I was kidding about 'man', but my point is that 'bro' isn't that exclusionary. In fact, I think the problem here is that a lot of geeks don't like 'bros' and I am doubting that they're hated by women as much. Personal opinion here, but: a lot of women have friends that are bros; a lot fewer geeks have friends that are bros.
  - couchand 13y ago
    Curious that you seem to think that women and geeks are mutually exclusive groups...
    - lhnz 13y ago
      No I didn't say that. I think that is completely false. >> A lot of geeks don't like 'bros' and I am doubting that they're hated by women as much. Personal opinion here, but: a lot of women have friends that are bros; a lot fewer geeks have friends that are bros. I think women that are geeks also have fewer 'bro' friends. Geek is a property of men and women, it is not a mutually-exclusive group. Nice try, trying to implicate me in sexism but I do not like it when people try to read things into what I say that I've never implied. I intended one thing, stop trying to use it against me... What I am saying is that I think a group of non-genderised geeks define the label 'bro' by its negative connotations more so than the greater super set of non-geeks (even those which are of the female gender.) It's a case of a new set of people 'bros' joining another set of people 'geeks'; it's exactly the same group behaviour as you see when people from different cultures immigrate into a country; same us-vs-them group behaviour; same magnification and amplification of negative connotations. A bro is just a stereotype. People are people and you should get to know them first before rejecting them (and especially if there are negative behaviours that you want to treat.)

Are you winding me up? Was man also misogynistic? Besides: curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org

by lhnz 13y ago

Are you winding me up? Was man also misogynistic? Besides: curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org

endymi0n 13y ago

it's actually the first thing a feminist programmer adds to her .bashrc: alias woman="man"

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oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
Please, "their .bashrc" :-)

chrisrhoden 13y ago

> Was man also misogynistic? man is short for manual. What is bro short for?

dictum 13y ago
Brother. (I couldn't resist.)
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nailer 13y ago
Same as chairman, they're all short for manus, which is 'hand' in Latin.
cdcarter 13y ago
Brochure. Which, despite the tounge-in-cheek joke I was trying to make, actually tends to be a shorter and more example driven document about a product.
- zhemao 13y ago
  That's actually hilarious. Very clever. I don't think the people complaining about the name in this thread will appreciate the joke, though.

mtrimpe 13y ago

You're shitting us right? Manpages referred to manuals, not men. But given that I'm obviously swimming against the tide here at HN I'll just cave ..... Word, brah! Like, totally right on! We should be making like 'sispages' next with like only explanations and shit. Get it? For like the sissy-grammers! Awesome dude. You da bomb!

lhnz 13y ago
Yes, I was kidding about 'man', but my point is that 'bro' isn't that exclusionary. In fact, I think the problem here is that a lot of geeks don't like 'bros' and I am doubting that they're hated by women as much. Personal opinion here, but: a lot of women have friends that are bros; a lot fewer geeks have friends that are bros.
- couchand 13y ago
  Curious that you seem to think that women and geeks are mutually exclusive groups...
  - lhnz 13y ago
    No I didn't say that. I think that is completely false. >> A lot of geeks don't like 'bros' and I am doubting that they're hated by women as much. Personal opinion here, but: a lot of women have friends that are bros; a lot fewer geeks have friends that are bros. I think women that are geeks also have fewer 'bro' friends. Geek is a property of men and women, it is not a mutually-exclusive group. Nice try, trying to implicate me in sexism but I do not like it when people try to read things into what I say that I've never implied. I intended one thing, stop trying to use it against me... What I am saying is that I think a group of non-genderised geeks define the label 'bro' by its negative connotations more so than the greater super set of non-geeks (even those which are of the female gender.) It's a case of a new set of people 'bros' joining another set of people 'geeks'; it's exactly the same group behaviour as you see when people from different cultures immigrate into a country; same us-vs-them group behaviour; same magnification and amplification of negative connotations. A bro is just a stereotype. People are people and you should get to know them first before rejecting them (and especially if there are negative behaviours that you want to treat.)