Yeah, as if there weren't any nerd moms. Stop the headline sexism already.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3931048
In summary, any allusion to gender with regard to tech is inevitably interpreted as sexist by someone.
Take a different example, say you described Git as:
* a man's version control system
or let's say you described it as:
* a woman's version control system
The male/female "binary" doesn't make them opposite and using one doesn't cancel out the sexism in the other, they just are sexist in different ways.
A radical feminist programmer saying "Now THAT is a woman's version control system."
A brogrammer saying "Pshh. That's a woman's version control system."
The male/female "binary" doesn't make them opposite
Yes, you're the best kind of correct, but let's not get caught up in semantics, the binary you so aptly point out is exactly what I'm taking about, 0 is the opposite of 1, and mom is the opposite of dad.
and using one doesn't cancel out the sexism in the other, they just are sexist in different ways.
This is only true if the use of feminine and masculine descriptions when discussing tech is inherently sexist, otherwise I don't see what either headline has to do with sex. Take your logic a little bit further and you might as well label gendered pronouns as sexist since they imply the sex of the subject.
Mom is not the opposite of dad, they are just paired ideas. This isn't semantics, this is plain simple reality. We sometimes think of them as binaries but they aren't actually so.
The opposite of a Mom is a not-Mom, a concept which can include Dad but can also include a woman who hasn't had children.
"This is only true if the use of feminine and masculine descriptions when discussing tech is inherently sexist"
I wasn't arguing about anything being inherently sexist, I was arguing that it was contextually sexist. If you don't understand that words have connotations, people's reactions to sexism will always seem mysterious and arbitrary to you.
"Take your logic a little bit further and you might as well label gendered pronouns as sexist since they imply the sex of the subject"
You obviously don't understand my logic and are arguing about something completely different.
Having said that, the article would get more upvotes here if the headline mentioned it was written in Go. ;-)
The phrase is a common American form of wording. "Not your mother's romance"; "Not your father's oldsmobile"; and so on.
So in this example my mother does have a bitcoin wallet but this new wallet is a bobby-dazzler.
I need to pause before posting.
I think that making an "ism" out of this headline applies. I don't know about you, but I'm not about to make language grey and boring just because certain people choose to take offense at anything and everything.
Yes, I'm well aware this is hyperbole. Deal.