Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.039 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.93; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'alter': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; '\xe2\x80\x94': 0.09; 'subject:How': 0.10; 'finney': 0.16; 'nerds': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:simple': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'asking': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'that.': 0.31; 'bunch': 0.31; 'claiming': 0.31; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; 'anyone': 0.31; 'subject:with': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'should': 0.36; 'so,': 0.37; 'list.': 0.37; 'ben': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'mailing': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'times': 0.62; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'here': 0.66; 'cut': 0.74; 'brain,': 0.84; 'female': 0.84; 'panties': 0.84; 'received:125': 0.84; 'subject:girl': 0.84; 'welcoming': 0.84; 'dating': 0.91; 'gender': 0.91; 'subject:!! ': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: HELP!! How to ask a girl out with a simple witty Python code?? Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:59:51 +1100 References: <8c09473e-92df-40ac-b083-d2b3a2b75188@googlegroups.com> <2906370c-58c7-4d8b-8db3-2ea3773b9578@googlegroups.com> <54f8d56a$0$12984$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xk8ChUcbMpfdWmigVS9S2uVibow= X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.19 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1425596394 news.xs4all.nl 2901 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:38513 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:86960 Steven D'Aprano writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > > sohcahtoa82@gmail.com writes: > > > >> I should have known better than to make a joke on this mailing > >> list. Someone is bound to get their panties all up in a bunch. > > > > You should have known better than to make gendered slurs. Claiming > > “it was a joke” doesn't alter the sexism of your remarks. Cut that > > out. > > "You're asking a bunch of nerds for dating advice?" “get their panties all up in a bunch” is a gendered slur. It is implying the person is female, as though the person should feel insulted by that. It uses the female gender as an insult. That's not welcoming to anyone female, and we should all be welcoming to anyone of any gender here — which includes not using any gender as the punch-line of a joke. -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but Zero Mostel times anything will still give you Zero | _o__) Mostel.” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney