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It made me chuckle, maybe take a joke?

It's unfortunate, but I know many people in my life who have been sexually abused and raped. I'm more sensitive to sexual jokes because of it. My intent here is to push the author past the easy joke title which can make women feel uncomfortable to be in this area of the internet.

Tech is very male dominated and the more inclusive we are the more ideas we bring to the table.

> Tech is very male dominated and the more inclusive we are the more ideas we bring to the table.

Tech has been bending over backwards for quite a while, but to no avail.

In contrast, marketing, law, medicine etc used to be very male dominated a few decades ago, made almost no attempt at welcoming women, and still got many of them.

It's almost as if women make their own choices, and it's not really down to how welcoming specific fields are? It's almost as if women have preferences of their own? Who would have guessed?

See https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-... and https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...

Do you think people make their own choices on where to work based on how comfortable they feel working in that environment?

Partially. But obviously lots of other factors are important.

Have a look at the slatestarcodex essays for more detail. Scott Alexander writes better than me.

> Tech has been bending over backwards for quite a while, but to no avail.

You're applying a false equivalence here. Some things are positive changes and make sense, and some are not. Grouping everything together isn't helpful.

I am male, and my first thought on reading the title was that it was juvenile to a point that I was surprised to see it as a title on HN. Hearing someone else echo that feedback is helpful and will hopefully help the author in their growth.

This is not a "bend over backwards" request, it's a dumb sexual joke on HN, and your response comes across as very condescending.

For what it's worth, I even partially agree with you.

I went back and noticed that the original comment is dead and flagged now. So I 'vouched' for it: I don't entirely agree with the contents, but I think it is part of a good debate.

I googled ^D and didn't find any other meaning other than ctrl-D?

Some places said a D is short for Dick, but I don't see why that would be especially offensive to abuse victims because it seems to be used in a flirtatious way, not an abusive way.

To give context, it's a reference to "getting the D" or "giving the D" which is slang for getting/giving someone 'dick' which is inappropriate considering this is a post about terminals.

I initially didn't get either of you, all I can think of was a half-face emoticon. It turns out that "getting the D" means something (I'll refrain from explaining this), and with this context "take a joke" is really unacceptable---it means you know the joke and you think it's fine, which isn't.

I don’t really get why this is so offensive. It’s some guy’s webpage, where we are just visitors, on which he has shared some knowledge with a title that plays on a double entendre. It’s not about taking a joke as it’s not something addressed to you at all. People need to stop being hall monitors on the internet. Just close the page, move on.

The title makes some absolute sense, so it is per se acceptable. You may take this case as a reminder to remain focused and disregard unnecessary potential lateral reads.

I didn't take offense to the title; it is not even clear whether the author intended that joke (I didn't know that phrase so could the author). I merely pointed out that, if you think the author intended this particular joke, then it is inappropriate to say "take [the] joke".

This is why tech bro culture persist.

> This is why tech bro culture persist.

Because one person on the Internet interpreted a title as a double entendre and said so?

I have nothing to say if you insist that phrase is not a sexual innuendo.

There's so many ways to phrase the title, but the author has to use https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Getting%20th....

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