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"But she still has to type it again, over and over, taking a tiny but not quite negligible emotional hit of feeling excluded every single time." The idea that
by Crake 13y ago
"But she still has to type it again, over and over, taking a tiny but not quite negligible emotional hit of feeling excluded every single time."
The idea that a woman would literally be repeatedly emotionally traumatized by typing a three letter combination would be hilarious if it weren't so blatantly misogynistic.
- jacobtracey 13y agoAll programmers should realise that being _forced_ to type a word that is loosely tied to a gender that isn't your own is a crushing emotional hit, probably comparable to rape. I feel ill all of a sudden thinking about all the disabled graphic designers that are forced to use GIMP every day.