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It's not "blatant". It's a common figure of speech. Get over it. Do we have to have SJW's infiltrating Hacker News now too.

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Its a common feature of HN that we don't condone sexism, racism, hate speech etc. A lazy stereotype of dumb women in an article title is not cool here.

>"Its a common feature of HN that we don't condone sexism, racism, hate speech etc."

And yet last time there was mention of "bro-culture" (i.e. anti-male, anti-techie), I don't recall seeing anywhere near this sort of reaction.

Because criticizing those in authority is very different from the opposite. The tired old dead horse of "its technically also racism to criticize the plantation master!" is an unworthy argument.

The "punching up is okay!" excuse is only useful to people who are in it for the punching.

How about if nobody gets punched. Don't roll out demeaning stereotypes against any groups; instead, treat people like human beings. Who knows, it might work out!

Please, elaborate on who, exactly, is the plantation master in your analogy? What absolute tripe.

"bro-culture" (i.e. anti-male, anti-techie)

What? Criticism of a specific subculture/attitude is not the same as being anti-male. If someone was stereotyping all men as "bros", that would be equivalent. And I'm pretty sure we'd have plenty of reactions against it.

I'm a male techie and I don't intuitively identify, in any sense, with "bro culture". So, I think this is off base.

What exactly do you find "off base"? I'm saying that I didn't see the same sort of backlash to a "bro culture" article as I am seeing for this one here.

The problem people have with "bro culture" doesn't have nearly as much to do with gender as it does with aggression, superficiality, and ill manners.

That's why despite HN's demographics skewing overwhelmingly male, "bro culture" is an epithet here.

Edit. So the term I was specifically thinking of was not "bro culture" but rather "brogramming", which is definitely some sort of jab at male individuals in the programming profession.

I'm a proud SJW. I actually find it really amusing that such a positive, admirable label is used as an insult. I have people in my life that I love who are women, gays, people with mental illness, etc. I'm proud to be a "warrior" for them. I'm not exactly sure what you're afraid of "SJWs" doing to your life, but I promise that we'd fight for you, too, if you needed it.

The problem is that people think that because I do not get offended by "mom" in the title, I can't also have men, women, gays and the disabled in my life whom I love.

That's a straw man. No one has said you should be offended. They're just saying that there are really good reasons that "mom" in the title is problematic.

>Do we have to have SJW's infiltrating Hacker News now too.

HackerNews is very sensitive when it comes to sexism, but not so much when it comes to H1Bs or outsourcing or China.

It's embarrassing that the purpose of the video is overlooked for PC.

And yet all your comments have been on the reactions to the video, and not about the video itself. Physician, heal thyself!

The reality is that the video is not very interesting, really. The content is well known around here, and even simplified explanations have been done before. There's nothing much to say about it.

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