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It's a play on words. This oversensitive, over analytical take on sexuality is getting old. What would you have preferred, the hu-man pages? But that would be e

It's a play on words. This oversensitive, over analytical take on sexuality is getting old. What would you have preferred, the hu-man pages? But that would be exclusionary to people in the industry who don't consider themselves human! <hyperbolic>What next, are you going to suggest that parents name their children gender neutral names so they don't have to chaff at it if they change gender?</hyperbolic> You can infer everything, from anything if you try.

presorted 13y ago
White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=9I7ExPk-920C&oi=fnd&pg=PA188&dq=white+privilege&ots=r7-s8n1FyO&sig=3BscGpiZBP2K2m4t_EgeA1eDuGs#v=onepage&q=white%20privilege&f=false http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=9I7ExPk-920C&oi=f...
- okasaki 13y ago
  Not everyone's from the US, bro.
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  - presorted 13y ago
    I don't have an objection. I'm not judgemental. I think that paper is very inspirational to think outside one's cultural conditioning.
    - Crake 13y ago
      I think that paper is very inspirational to people who love to stereotype others based on race, especially in a judgmental manner.
gruseom 13y ago
A play on words is ok, as long as it's not a running joke that keeps coming up. That's distracting. The key to the Unix joke name genre is that the jokes are encoded laconically into the name and only the name (e.g. "less") and then have the good taste to immediately expire. They don't get old because they don't overstay their welcome. Edit: I reworded this to be less judgmental.
- philh 13y ago
  > It also clumsily fails to understand the genre it's trying to reproduce, the Unix joke name. Those jokes are encoded laconically into the name and only the name (e.g. "less") and then have the good taste to immediately expire. They don't get old because they don't overstay their welcome. I'm confused. Is the bro thing showing up in this command apart from in the name?
  - gruseom 13y ago
    I thought it did from reading the blog post. Is that wrong? If so, I'll delete my comment.
    - philh 13y ago
      Oh, I didn't see that there's 'bro thanks' and 'bro ...no' for voting. I wouldn't call that too much, but YMMV. I can't see anything else.
      - gruseom 13y ago
        You have a good point. I rewrote my comment to make fewer assumptions.
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knowtheory 13y ago
Actually why not? Why not 'bot' pages?
- joyeuse6701 13y ago
  Actually as I wrote it, I realized it wasn't that bad an idea. Hah!
IbJacked 13y ago
I agree with you. People are imparting their own interpretation of the word. When I skimmed the web site, I didn't notice anything relating to the whole "brogrammer" thing. Just because it starts with the same three letters doesn't mean anything. As already stated in many other comments, "bro" is also, and more commonly, used as a substitute for other colloquial words such as "man", "dude", "guys", and is frequently gender neutral. These niggling complaints of offense where none was intended is indeed getting old. The author's intent is what actually matters, not how someone else interprets it. A reader gets to choose whether to be offended by a word or not, he doesn't get to choose the author's intent.
- joyeuse6701 13y ago
  Just wrote something similar. I wholeheartedly agree. Context and Intent are everything when it comes to language.

presorted 13y ago

White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=9I7ExPk-920C&oi=fnd&pg=PA188&dq=white+privilege&ots=r7-s8n1FyO&sig=3BscGpiZBP2K2m4t_EgeA1eDuGs#v=onepage&q=white%20privilege&f=false http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=9I7ExPk-920C&oi=f...

okasaki 13y ago
Not everyone's from the US, bro.
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- presorted 13y ago
  I don't have an objection. I'm not judgemental. I think that paper is very inspirational to think outside one's cultural conditioning.
  - Crake 13y ago
    I think that paper is very inspirational to people who love to stereotype others based on race, especially in a judgmental manner.

gruseom 13y ago

A play on words is ok, as long as it's not a running joke that keeps coming up. That's distracting. The key to the Unix joke name genre is that the jokes are encoded laconically into the name and only the name (e.g. "less") and then have the good taste to immediately expire. They don't get old because they don't overstay their welcome. Edit: I reworded this to be less judgmental.

philh 13y ago
> It also clumsily fails to understand the genre it's trying to reproduce, the Unix joke name. Those jokes are encoded laconically into the name and only the name (e.g. "less") and then have the good taste to immediately expire. They don't get old because they don't overstay their welcome. I'm confused. Is the bro thing showing up in this command apart from in the name?
- gruseom 13y ago
  I thought it did from reading the blog post. Is that wrong? If so, I'll delete my comment.
  - philh 13y ago
    Oh, I didn't see that there's 'bro thanks' and 'bro ...no' for voting. I wouldn't call that too much, but YMMV. I can't see anything else.
    - gruseom 13y ago
      You have a good point. I rewrote my comment to make fewer assumptions.

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knowtheory 13y ago

Actually why not? Why not 'bot' pages?

joyeuse6701 13y ago
Actually as I wrote it, I realized it wasn't that bad an idea. Hah!

IbJacked 13y ago

I agree with you. People are imparting their own interpretation of the word. When I skimmed the web site, I didn't notice anything relating to the whole "brogrammer" thing. Just because it starts with the same three letters doesn't mean anything. As already stated in many other comments, "bro" is also, and more commonly, used as a substitute for other colloquial words such as "man", "dude", "guys", and is frequently gender neutral. These niggling complaints of offense where none was intended is indeed getting old. The author's intent is what actually matters, not how someone else interprets it. A reader gets to choose whether to be offended by a word or not, he doesn't get to choose the author's intent.

joyeuse6701 13y ago
Just wrote something similar. I wholeheartedly agree. Context and Intent are everything when it comes to language.