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Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages
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Date 2012-01-03 08:59 +1100
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Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> writes:

> > Nonsense. Felinx is free to make sexist jokes, and others are free
> > to howl him down when he does so. PyPI has no obligation to be a
> > platform to amplify anyone's prejudice.
>
> A module named "girlfriend" won't amplify anyone's prejudice. It is,
> at that point, just a joke.

I agree that it's a joke. It is a joke at the expense of women:
promoting the view that, like a car or a house (the other modules that
were part of the joke), a girlfriend is a possession to be acquired.

> The punchline is "import girlfriend"

Yes, exactly.

The next time someone asks why the ratio of women becoming programmers
is disproportionately low, please recall episodes where men here give
defenses of jokes that objectify women.

Instead, the more we marginalise sexism and reject normalising it
through sexist jokes, the safer this community can become for anyone of
any sex.

-- 
 \       “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting |
  `\   them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good |
_o__)                                            reason.” —Jack Handey |
Ben Finney

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Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-01-02 13:20 +0100
  Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-03 06:45 +1100
    Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 15:56 -0500
      Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-03 08:59 +1100
        Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-03 08:21 +0000
          Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-04 08:57 +1100
            Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-04 01:37 +0000
              Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-04 12:54 +1100
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-04 02:04 +0000
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-04 13:42 +1100
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-01-03 19:34 -0800
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdhury@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 12:49 +0000
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 11:39 -0700
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 12:28 -0700
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 13:08 -0700
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 20:51 +0000
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-05 21:26 -0800
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 13:37 +1100
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-05 21:22 -0800
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2012-01-04 03:06 +0000
                Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 14:31 +1100
        Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-01-03 09:47 +0100
          Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-04 09:11 +1100
    Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 22:43 +0000
    Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 19:10 -0500

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