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Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?

From random832@fastmail.us
References <2013101623133337485-owenjacobson@grimoireca>
Subject Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?
Date 2013-10-17 00:22 -0400
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1142.1381983772.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013, at 23:13, Owen Jacobson wrote:
> > * therapist - yeah, It passes as a double meaning - but still.

Or a single meaning. Who's to say the person who wrote the module even
had any idea it could be read otherwise?

> > * shag

Something to do with carpet?

> > * db_nazi

See below.


> * SexMachine (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SexMachine/0.1.1 - an 
> attempt to detect the gender of names, which… well, ask the nearest boy 
> named Sue - or girl named Leslie)
> * sexytime (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sexytime/0.1.0)
> * pep8nazi (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pep8nazi/0.1 - do we shove 
> non-PEP8-compliant authors into "showers" now?)

While this flippant usage of "Nazi" (based on, as I understand it,
Seinfeld's "soup nazi") may be offensive, it has nothing to do with
sexism. If the scope of this discussion is to be offensive module names
generally, then the subject line should have mentioned that.

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Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> - 2013-10-16 23:13 -0400
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? random832@fastmail.us - 2013-10-17 00:22 -0400
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-17 05:48 +0000
      Offense versus harrassment (was: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-17 17:44 +1100
        Re: Offense versus harrassment (was: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-17 11:24 +0000
      Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2013-10-17 08:50 +0200
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-18 02:02 +0000
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-10-16 21:32 -0700
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-17 15:36 +1100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-17 09:20 +0000
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Zero Piraeus <z@etiol.net> - 2013-10-17 08:48 -0300
      Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 09:50 -0700
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? marduk@python.net - 2013-10-17 06:30 -0400
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 22:05 +1100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-17 09:52 -0400
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Danyelle Davis <ladynikon@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 10:38 -0400
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 02:07 +1100
      Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-17 10:16 -0700
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 13:43 -0600
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-17 20:53 +0100
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 07:14 +1100
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 09:56 +1100
          Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-17 20:10 -0400
            Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 14:45 +1100
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-18 03:14 +0000
          Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 15:03 +1100
          Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-18 09:15 +0100
          Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 15:08 +0100
          Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 15:09 +0100
          Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? ishish <ishish@domhain.de> - 2013-10-18 16:21 +0100
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? ishish <ishish@domhain.de> - 2013-10-18 09:57 +0100
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Bob Hartwig <bobjects@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 09:28 -0400
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? aurelien@xload.io (Aurélien DESBRIÈRES) - 2013-10-18 15:47 +0200
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Nelle Varoquaux <nelle.varoquaux@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 17:00 +0200
      Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-18 02:12 +0000
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 15:00 +1100
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-10-17 21:26 +0200
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-17 16:03 +0100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Paul Pittlerson <menkomigen6@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 09:43 -0700
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-10-17 18:37 +0100
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 21:13 +0300
      Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-18 01:49 +0000
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-18 08:58 +0100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-10-17 22:14 +0100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-10-17 22:17 +0100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-10-17 17:42 -0400
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> - 2013-10-17 17:50 -0400
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 09:11 +1100
      Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> - 2013-10-17 18:23 -0400
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 23:07 -0600
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-26 16:47 +0000

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