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C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language

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The only reason this should be of any interest is that github took it down: https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...

Now that's a story worthy of being on HN: Github censoring for content. Granted, said content is utter drek.

Also, it was pretty funny. GitHub taking this down is... concerning. This will do nothing for the cause of women, en contraire.

It's mind-boggling that someone has spent so much time on this when they could instead have been creating something useful, meaningful, or, at the least, actually funny.

It's just substitution macros for the C++ preprocessor that was probably churned out in no more than 20 minutes (by members of /g/).

The README was collaboratively written by /pol/ viewers.

Actually funny? I thought this was hilarious. Perhaps not if you're unfamiliar with extreme SJW rhetoric, or if you sympathize with it. Either way, it did cause a stir all over the web (especially Reddit), but not here.

The HN patriarchy killed the links off pretty quickly

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6903584

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6899946

What you find funny depends a lot on your view of the subject matter. I am not a feminist (in that I don't consider women to be people), and so I found the site quite humorous. Similarly, I don't find feminist web-comics to be funny.

Poe's law is strongly in effect here.

Let me clarify. I am not a feminist but I do consider women to be people. I was making a reference to the common claim that being a feminist is equivalent to considering women to be people.

I agree. It's a shame that instead of people creating something useful, everyone has to create an "environment that's inviting to womyn" and make sure all their work is "gender neutral and non-sexist."

The author(s) correctly identify ASCII as basically Hitler, but UTF-8 is still a pretty white-privileged encoding. UCS-4 is more respectful of cultural diversity.

I'm a card-carrying feminist* and thought it was hilarious, although I can understand how others might feel differently. I guess it depends on whether you see it as a dispute between different schools of feminism or between feminists and anti-feminists. Count me a pro-humor feminist. I never laugh so hard as when I laugh at myself.

*I think my Mills College faculty ID counts.

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