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C-plus-Equality

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20 pointsgaius14 comments

At last, a programming language to combat the pervasive misogyny and sexism of this industry. This is a truly revolutionary example of forward thinking based on decades of extensive research in sociology, feminist theory, egalitarian philosophy and Marxism.

A language that is conscious of issues pertaining to the horrors of rape culture, patriarchy and the solace of women's emotional sensitivity.

Bravo! This is a single step, but certainly one that will pave the way for a new era of understanding.

Right now it's just macros for the C++ preprocessor, but all great things start small.

Hooray for trivializing _actual_ issues in tech. Oh, and a rape joke thrown in for good measure.

Jesus.

I agree. This is stupid and immature.

It's not trivializing anything.

It's a parody of views expressed by extreme social justice warriors, usually associated with the Tumblr scene.

There's nothing inherently bad about rape jokes. They're a form of black humor, but so is a lot of comedy. Humor is a coping mechanism. We often laugh at things that deep down are quite disturbing, but are presented in such a manner that we may calmly deal with uncomfortable ideas and find relief.

In fact, all great comedians are provocative and shocking to a degree. Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, etc. If we were to follow the advice of hypersensitive narcissists who insist that certain jokes offend them and therefore shouldn't be told, that would pretty much be the death of it all. Some jokes are supposed to elicit disgust, unnerve or provoke. The most masterful is one that offends you yet makes you laugh simultaneously.

It is a parody of views expressed by extreme SJW folks. But it isn't a good one. Some parodies just aren't funny because they push too many buttons - you don't want to mock the sensical, reasonable bits of a view, just the parts that are over the top. It's a fine line between ugly and funny when doing parody.

There is also the part where a lot of discussions about this in many forums have been of the "Oh it's just like all women want" and "all feminism is inequality for reals" variety, and flat out denial of the "there's no such thing as extreme SJW feminism and other types - it's just too impossible to classify" - suggesting it is appealing to a much different crowd than you think it is.

you don't want to mock the sensical, reasonable bits of a view, just the parts that are over the top.

All of the views parodied here are over-the-top.

Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luce_Irigaray

Being easily offended is the modern way of signalling ones sophistication and intelligence.

There are actual issues in tech in the same sense that there are issues in cosmetology concerning men. Where is the industry push for males in cosmetology? Why aren't celebrities and politicians calling for more men in cosmetology? Why aren't women out recruiting men for cosmetology the same way white knights in tech are doing for women? Is it because you see the things women choose to do out of their own free will as inherently inferior and trivial? Who are the ones with the real problem, with the real sexism towards women here?

Females studying computer science is actually going down despite the huge push in the past few years. I know your cultural Marxist religion teaches that the root of all "problems" (and ironically this is only a "problem" to women who chose gender studies over computer science) is the environment around a person, but it's false.

The _actual_ issues in tech is your social justice mental disorder / religion.

Looks like the contents of the readme is on Pastie[0] since it was flagged on Github.

[0]: http://pastie.org/pastes/8550897

I didn't think anything about this topic could have any humor wrung out of it.

I was wrong.

On a more meta note, I don't foresee this topic doing too well, considering HN's dislike of SJW nonsense and humor.

I've noticed HN has a rather mixed outlook on SJWs.

A lot of people are very sympathetic and adamant, most are in the middle ground and little are actually outright antagonistic. Of course many who subscribe to extreme views see any bit of criticism as an attack, so it's hard to measure it in that regard.

Hmmm I wonder if C+= is somehow related to C+@

I was raped 12 times today at my womyns studies class. This program really helps me cope with the nightmares.

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