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Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages

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> Perhaps I'm just slow, but what is sexist about this package? Do you even
> know what the package does?

The dependencies are "car", "house", and "money" (and "workhard", of
course). The joke being that women only care about how wealthy you
are.

If it's just about naming a package "girlfriend", though, I agree. And
honestly that's much better material for a joke anyway.

-- Devin

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:24:48 +0100, Alexander Kapps wrote:
>
>> Uh oh, should I really send this? ... Yes. Yes, I should! Sorry, I
>> cannot resists.
>>
>>>>> allow everyone to do "import girlfriend"
>>
>>> I'm betting on a joke, like antigravity only significantly less funny
>>> and more sexist.
>>
>> Absolutely not funny. I hope that someday people will understand that
>> sexism is just another form of racism.
>
> Perhaps I'm just slow, but what is sexist about this package? Do you even
> know what the package does?
>
>
>> Felinx Lee: Do apologize and rename your package/module
>
> So the package itself is not offensive, just the name "girlfriend"?
>
> Or is it the very concept of "girlfriend" that offends you?
>
>
>> or I'm going to
>> make a racist comment against Chinese people.
>
> I'm sure he's quaking in his boots. Some random guy on the Internet is
> going to insult him based on a wild assumption about his nationality.
>
>
>
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> Steven
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Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Alexander Kapps <alex.kapps@web.de> - 2012-01-02 00:24 +0100
  Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-02 11:52 +1100
    Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-02 12:43 +1100
  Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-02 07:08 +0000
    Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 02:52 -0500
      Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages David Monaghan <monaghand.david@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 13:00 +0000
  Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-05 21:58 -0800

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