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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.)
That's a bit like saying you're annoyed that someone cleaned up after graffiti. Or fixed a broken window.
Its not in GitHub's mission to be laid into by feminist harpies. The professionally thin-skinned have presence and numbers online now, and many places are simply taking anything that might be denounced as 'offensive' down to avoid trouble.
Reading comments on Hacker News made me even less likely to ever hire a woman in IT.
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
That's a composition fallacy sometimes labeled the "apex fallacy." The most visible members of a society do not necessarily represent the composition of the society. Don't forget that those men in 90% of more of the political positions have been voting FOR feminist stuff for decades. Additionally, fashion magazines are pretty much entirely created by women. The wage gap myth has been thoroughly debunked and warrants no further discussion; when you look at whether or not men and women who are being researched have married in the past, women in the "never previously married" category make MORE money than men in the same situation. Marriage brings about families and families bring about the need for the children to have a caretaker, and that's where you start to see women make less than men. Why? Part-time jobs or no job at all pays less than the full-time plus overtime that the man works to pay for the entire family's expenses.