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Let's be friendly to GIRLS

Name: Anonymous 2009-10-20 9:22

• Have a zero tolerance policy concerning online harrassment and enforce it.
• Don't allow sexist jokes. It's impossible for a woman to tell if you "really" mean it, and even if you don't it will be tedious and insulting for her to spend her time ignoring or humouring sexist jokes.
• Write all of your introductory material in such a way that a woman will recognise herself in it just as much as a man will. Use "she" to describe readers in various places, and use female names for some of your hypothetical examples when you have them.
• Unless your group has an explicitly sexual purpose, minimise the discussion of the sexual desires of participants. Many women (entirely justifiably) fear online harrassment in sexual contexts.
• Involve women in the creation and governance of your forum at every level.
• If there is an anti-feminist incident in your forum, apologise simply. Don't use phrasing that suggests that only women would have found the incident upsetting, or that you would have found the incident unproblematic if there weren't complaints. Don't tell women how they should feel about the incident: listen to them describe how they feel.
• Women are often placed in the role of "nanny" in forums. Don't leave the enforcement of social norms to the women members of the group.

Source: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Women-friendly_forums

Name: Anonymous 2009-10-23 5:00

I just had an epiphany; our sexist programming languages have been this way for far too long.

We must create the A++ language, so as to make women feel that smaller breasts are okay too. Instead of the primitive male groupings of namespaces, we must have "socialspheres." We don't build structs and classes, we build "kits" and "rooms," like makeup and decor.

The "main" routine implies dominance of the program, and is thus a corollary to male control. We must subsume this for the "committee" routine. using is not contextually appealing, we prefer "receiving." Alternate syntax is required for aliasing socialspheres.

Datatypes are generally fine as they are. However, most programs run on a single thread. This also represents the one-track male mind. Programs compiled in A++ must run with at least 4 threads. This also ensures that the computer can simply not like you on any given day of the lunar cycle.

The A++ standard library needs beefing up; no female can be caught using the same code as another female, particularly at a LAN party. Consider many pointless additions from the Boost library.

Exceptions are fine as they are, the program is supposed to drop everything and handle their problems. References are heavily enforced due to their importance in female culture, but const correctness is discouraged. Forcing const correctness on one may imply a standard of beauty or properness.

With these simple changes, I'm sure all women would be completely satisfied with the programming world.

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