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Comment by paulwithap | Hacker News Reader

Foul language!???!? SOMEONE WRITE A BLOG POST TO PROTECT THE HELPLESS WOMEN!

So you don't think there's any merit to the argument that women might not want to work with a piece of software called rape-me?

Why would anyone want to work with a piece of software called rape-me?

Ask the man who wrote it.

Ask the person who wrote it. Whether he was a man is irrelevant. Men are also raped. Any person's motivations for naming their software something offensive are personal and not representative of an entire gender.

There are childish assholes everywhere, and this guy seems to take a few Rubygems with names like "ass" (how sexist!) and claim that this is indicative of a general attitude of he-man woman-hating in the programming community. The entire thing is absolutely ridiculous.

There's a big difference between "foul language" and that which is offensive, inconsiderate, exclusionary, and generally sexist, having the result of making women feel unsafe/unwelcome in this space.

Check your privilege, dude.

You are agreeing with the person to whom you are responding, that foul language is not sexism.

"Check your privilege" is virtually never a helpful thing to say.

The person to whom I responded feels, as evidenced by his sarcasm, that the entire issue is trivial. We clearly do not agree. You're both unable to see the other side of it.

I can see from your other comment on this thread that further discussion on this with you would be an uphill one so I'm signing off now.

If you think I'm a sexist, then I think you're an idiot. You know nothing about me.

Well I've seen your comments such as "Men are raped too" in reference to women being raped, which says to me you're goal is to marginalize women's issues, which seems pretty sexist to me. If you'd like to defend pointing out that men are raped too in reference to women being raped I'd be happy to point the sexist and misogynistic aspects of your opinions, which sadly, should be blindingly obvious.

Reddit is over there. <<<<<<<

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