On 05/03/2015 22:59, Ben Finney wrote:
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes:
Ben Finney wrote:
sohcahto...@gmail.com writes:
I should have known better than to make a joke on this mailing
list. Someone is bound to get their panties all up in a bunch.
You should have known better than to make gendered slurs. Claiming
“it was a joke” doesn't alter the sexism of your remarks. Cut that
out.
"You're asking a bunch of nerds for dating advice?"
“get their panties all up in a bunch” is a gendered slur. It is implying
the person is female, as though the person should feel insulted by that.
It uses the female gender as an insult.
That's not welcoming to anyone female, and we should all be welcoming to
anyone of any gender here — which includes not using any gender as the
punch-line of a joke.
I just wish this kind of approach was used consistently across the
board. That way we wouldn't have had to put up with the appalling slurs
from our RUE (Resident Unicode Expert) for perhaps two years.
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