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OMG!!! OMG OMG!!! LINUS LIKES PINKDOT!!! LOL!!!
fimion writes "Linus Torvalds seems to be pleased by the new slashdot look. Slashdot has appeased the linux gods! Let us all rejoice on this happy day!" He is totally invited to my next sleepover/pajama party. We're watching The O.C. OMG Marissa tried DRUGS!!!
Oh no! I'm a postman, and sarcasm offends my kind! I can't believe Slashdot could be so insensitive! I hate you all!
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people today? The barely-disadvantaged-at-all are out in force bitching about every little detail. These are jokes, get over yourselves!
Oh come on. If he actually meant to be sexist, that's one thing, but this can also very easily be a pun on the stereotypical way a large number of teenage girls actually act. Just because of this it doesn't mean he's automatically insulting all members of the female gender. If you are so arrogant to think that every event like this is an attack directly on your gender, then you need to grow up and learn to think critically. Even if he meant this event to be sexist, which I really doubt, then would he even do it on such a large scale? Do you honestly give the mods such little credit in the common sense department? Come on now.
As far as stereotypes go, this is a very real one, I have a teenage sister and friends that follow many parts of this stereotype. You should be less worried about overreacting because you didn't actually read between the lines, and more worried about what society has done to your gender and what a majority of teenage girls of this age have become.
As far as funny goes, this was meant as a joke. If he were to theme it after all of the stereotypes surrounding what "real man" is for example. There would be people for an against that as well, but that doesn't change the fact that it was done in jest. He wasn't trying to insult a gender. He was merely poking fun at a popular stereotype. If you're incapable of thinking for yourself and need to follow these stereotypes for acceptance, then that's your problem, not ours.
My gender has plenty of these stereotypes as well, but we'll leave that for when someone posts disapprovingly after the mods decide to theme slashdot after macho men, football players, etc, etc.
I'm not trying to say you follow any of these at all, merely giving you plenty of what if questions as food for though. I appologize if you take any of this negatively, but I aim to inform, not to insult.
Anyway, happy "april first", As in "april fools day".
Aside from the pink and the lack of dupes, it does seem to be business as usual today at Slashdot! Particularly in the editing department. :)
He who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Actually, considering the personality I've seen of most of the women I see on Slashdot, I would assume they'd think, "*snort* Thank god this is an april fool's joke. I would hate for the priss element to start showing up."
Na, really. Stop taking yourself so seriously. If you don't think it's funny, that's fine. If you're offended by it, let me offend you proper by telling you that you've been brainwashed by your college professors. You're one of a dying race, as most women I've run into of late can take a freaking joke.
Seriously, men don't get offended when you call us lumbering sweaty fur-covered oafs with an obsession with sports and an aversion to anything involving pink, girliness, gayness or anything else that could be in some way construed with being unmanly - even the ones of us who are pretty much not of that breed.
This is because we know we're either a) laughing at ourselves; very healthy, b) laughing at behaviors we've overcome; also very healthy, or c) laughing at what we've never been, but seen other behave like, if not healthy, very satisfying.
Meanwhile, I didn't see anything about PMS, pregnancy, blondeness. Sure, the site motif at the moment is making fun of stupid catty 15 year old girls. Meet one and admit to me that they don't deserve your ridicule. Then and only then are you permitted to hold off limits an entire 51% of the population from satire.
Which is really what it's all about. A 'sexist' joke is not necessarily mean-spirited, which is what matters. Still, a small, loud, obnoxious portion of the female human population is under the impression that specifying the hilarity of the difference between sexes - or even segments of a population that happen to include gender as part of the behavioral model (in this case, 'teenage', 'female', 'shallow', and 'catty' come to mind as specific identifiers) - is morally wrong and should be outlawed and litigated against.
These people need shot. Or at least, need to be drugged, 24/7, with a 20-80 nitrous oxide-pure oxygen mix.
No, seroiusly. Laugh. Getting angry only proves that you lack the one vital personality component that keeps most humans sane and likable: a sense of humor.
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What's the problem? It was a woman who taught me to make fun of this crap. Most women, after the age of 12, seem to think "pink and pony" themes are pretty lame. My friend's mother gave her some unicorn pajamas when she was 15, and it scarred her well into her 30's.
Besides, the rest of the year, Slashdot is pretty much a parody of teenage boys, even if they don't intend it.
Not if it's true sexism, but don't you see that this is a parody of sexism? In a field made up predominantly of men, our best attempt to appeal to women is a pink "My little pony" theme. Sure, some may be sitting at home thinking "yeah, more women will read our sight, now. They're so stupid", but I promise you, 95% of the people who read this were laughing at the lapse in judgement that would have lead to this decision.
I think you need to take life a little less seriously.
If you think that somebody turning a site pink and writing "OMG Ponies" makes anyone out there assume that all women are stupid, then you aren't as smart as you think you are.
The were looking for the opposite of "news for nerds", they got "OMG!!! Ponies". It wasn't a patriarchal plot to put all women in their place, it was an attempt to be lighthearted. I happen to agree - if ever there was an anti-nerd (and I mean that term in the most unisex of ways), it is a teenage girl. That's the best part -- it grossed out just as many geekgirls as geekboys, making it pretty damn successful as a joke, I think.
Personally, I think a lot of people are going to miss PinkDot, come tomorrow...
*grin*
Pixie
don't mess with those geekgrrls
Uhhhh, don't put words into our mouths. I said that it is a common stereotype followed by a large number of teenage girls. I did NOT say that every female follows these stereotypes. Before responding, please do some research on "stereotypes", and read some articles on studies about the youth of today.
"Regardless of whether it's intended as a joke or not, it is sexist, and I don't find it funny."
Fine, you don't like it, you're entitled to your opinion, I personally think they went a little overboard as well, but calling someone sexist is a very sharp comment. You're baseing your opinion solely on the fact that they were making fun of a stereotype, not the people that follow it, not the female gender, just the basic patterns and ideals that make up this common stereotype. This never has, and never did, and never will have anything to do with insulting the the female gender.
My issue is less with the colour scheme and more with news posts like this one. This is basically implying all women are stupid. If your teenage sister writes like this post, then slashdot is basically implying that all women have the mentality of a teenage girl.
If you're going to insult someone, please, please learn how to read into sentences better than you have. As far as I can see, all you're trying to do is pick out the most negative meaning you can twist my sentence to mean, and given I don't have 300 flame posts yet, perhaps you should try going through and reading it again. I wasn't implying anything larger from that sentence, I implied that it was a very real stereotype.
"and more worried about what society has done to your gender and what a majority of teenage girls of this age have become."
Okay, that sentence wasn't very clear, i'll rewrite it for you: "You should be less worried about puns against stereotypes, and more about the image that society is presenting to the teenage female gender as "beautiful" and "attractive". Many young girls will do almost anything to try and be attractive to others and fit in, guys do it too, but the extremity (sp?) of the image portrayed to young women is horrible. Every day teenage girls starve themselves to death just because they want to look pretty. They get painful and disfiguring plastic surgery just so they can try to fit in. Not only am I, in my view, not sexist, i'm quite the opposite, but I don't take such out front and offending moves as to blatently insult someone without thinking about it first.
You post about "blonde jokes" and "dumb women" jokes. I hate those kinds of jokes. I don't tell them to anyone, and i'm all frowns if they tell them to me, but I don't attack them for it. Is it really worth the argument? No. The article is right, those kinds of jokes are offensive, but this was never about being offensive to women, ever. My brother and a number of his friends use AIM speak as well, it's not just the teenage female gender that is affected by this stereotype, it affects men as well. This was meant to be a simple play on the stereotype, just like if someone was to make a joke about l33t-speak. The people that use l33t-speak are still around, but just because they use it, is that to say every single one of them is stupid? No. The jokes made here today are hardly meant to insult your gender, however do to the fact that, as you helpfully noted, the slashdot crowd is so completely made up of almost all men, the sections of the stereotype that were most opposite to us were used. I think the joke was to create a site themed to make fun of, not as much the stereotype enveloping the female youth today, but as a direct counter of the stereotype about geek men being losers and never having girlfriends, after all this is a geek news site right?
In closing, I do not like sexist jokes, I don't intend on sounding sexist, however it is people that go off on things like this that make the imaginary gap between our genders eve
Well, NCalGal and I thought it was hilarious.
As well, I have at least 20 different girlgeeks friended, and I have yet to encounter a single one of them who are offended or even a little miffed, other than the complaints about their eyes bleeding. If you dont believe me go find them and look.
I don't think anyone's angry. Really, I don't. I'm pretty sure we're all too busy laughing. Sure, you can interpret it as a slur, if you try reeeeally hard. But why on earth would you?
Pix
don't mess with those geekgrrls