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GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language
FooAtWFU writes "Some clowns and jokers over at 4chan thought it would be a funny idea to put together a web page for a programming language named 'C Plus Equality' as a parody of feminism, dismissing OOP as 'objectifying' and inheritance as "a tool of the patriarchy". But this parody was apparently too hot to host at Github, which took down the original Github repository after receiving criticism on Twitter, prompting a backlash and inquiry into the role of free speech and censorship on Github's platform. The project has since found a new home on BitBucket, at least for the time being." Comments on an article describing the research which sparked the parody call the parody's language "fake," and compare it to the 1996 Sokal affair. (It also reminds me a bit of Jesux.)
The problem isn't women in the community (they have been here all along...) its feminists.
That's crap.
As with other niche communities, feminists have invaded the programming community, and then demanded that the community change its character and become a 'safe space'.
WTF kind of drugs are you on?
In this context, 'safe' means that feminists must be able to unilaterally dictate social norms, and that criticism of feminism is pushed out.
Yet more crap.
You'll forgive me - and many others - for not wanting feminism in programming. Women, as I said, are welcome and have been for a long time.
And yet more.
You need to come up with a shred of evidence before posting shit like that if you wish to have any credibility at all. And if what your talking about essentially boiles down to being against brogrammers and a locker room mentality, then I don't want that either and I'm a guy.
Thing is, in a professional, civlised environment that works well for guys of all stripes it turns out that there really isn't a problem for women. When it gets unprofessional and starts putting women off it beccomes distasteful for some guys too.
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