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That’s a mild “ha ha” kind of joke I’d expect to see on a joke-a-day cartoon calendar.


Right. Definitely stupid and probably a stretch to call it sexist. Would something like this really get you banned from a mailing list?


Something doesn't have to exist as a certain quality for a subset of people to determine that it may be perceived as "too much a likeness of some THING".

In short: You can be banned for talking about pasta in a noodles forum. That doesn't mean pasta is not a noodle.

It's not sexist. Them banning it as sexist does not make it sexist.

Every day I wake up to the programming community becoming more pretend, more fake, more toxic and less open. Ironically the very thing it is trying to distance itself from.




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