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I had the same reaction. If they're going for a Big Brother reference, why not a name like BB or George[Orwell] or something from Newspeak?
by alxndr 12y ago
I had the same reaction.
If they're going for a Big Brother reference, why not a name like BB or George[Orwell] or something from Newspeak?
- Zikes 12y agoBecause there is nothing wrong with the word "bro".
- drivingmenuts 12y agoSeriously? Denotatively, it's meaningless. Connotatively, it's turned into a pretty objectionable term, in my opinion.
- Zikes 12y agoYes, seriously. It's just a word, like "sis" or "gal" or "the", and has no inherent negative or positive connotations. Somebody has invented drama around this word, some other people have bought into it, and now more people are just trying to stir it up again because Hacker News has somehow gone a whole two days without senseless bickering.
- gohrt 12y ago> has no inherent negative or positive connotations. That's not how 'connotation' works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connotation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connotation
- forgottenpass 12y agoThere's no getting around it anymore. We have to accept the fact Bay Area startup culture has turned a term of endearment into a gendered slur.
- Zikes 12y agoSo we grow a backbone and tread on, ignoring the people trying to manufacture scandal for their own entertainment or empowerment, or we let one city's subculture control the rights to the English language. I choose the former.
- obvious_throw 12y agoThat is, until you get fired from your job for thoughtcrime. Being politically correct and believing/saying the right things is required for employment in the tech industry now.
- mkr-hn 12y agoNope. Still going to call my big bro bro, and my friend-bros bro. Most of them have never heard of this manufactured conflict.
- Permit 12y agoThe simplest explanation is that the project was started and named far before the term "brogrammer" was coined.
- alxndr 12y agoWow, really rubbed some bros the wrong way with that thought. Ha.