I think 3's onto something... <-- check my perfect square
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Anonymous2012-06-09 21:22
what is a "privlieg"?
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Anonymous2012-06-09 21:58
Being able to listen to speakers refer to non-gendered items as defaulting to male (such as calling an inanimate software construct "this guy") without being reminded that you are a minority gender in the room. This reminder can result in feeling othered and getting distracted from the content of the talk.
Oh die in a fire.
Is there a place where I can cash my male privilege in?
I keep hearing about this privilege I'm supposed to have for being male, but I've never seen any sign of it.
I think something must have gone wrong and I didn't receive my privilege, so is there somewhere I can go to receive a cash sum as compensation?
>>24
The theory is that over a number of millenia, men dominates over the upper ranks of society and prestige because of the fear of scarcity and the need to protect their society by attaining wealth and power and that this behaviour is cultural. What most feminists don't realise is that this is instinctual behaviour that's been part of the evolution of all the gendered species for millions of years. This behaviour is determined genetically and has been refined through evolution.
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Anonymous2012-06-10 10:43
>“I arranged for a group of girls from my school to attend Go Girl, Go For IT, but when the bus arrived to take us, nobody showed up. They'd decided to have a day off and go shopping instead.” — Jody Brokhus
LOLWTF
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262012-06-10 10:44
HEY SISTERS YOU GOIN' SHOPPING CAN I CUM TOO?
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Anonymous2012-06-10 11:39
A few of them make sense, but they aren't really "privileges", they're just examples of socially inept men being socially inept, and dumb men being dumb.
Some of them are ridiculous, though, like this one:
>The freedom to laugh at stories about speakers' significant others not understanding something technical without wondering whether they have you in mind.
This really just sounds like some kind of paranoid narcissism - "are they thinking about me when they say that?", "was that about me?", "are they talking about me?", "is everything about me?", "am I the centre of the universe?"...
I guess the message here is this: stop being so arrogant as to assume that everything is about you. When you go outside, the majority of the people you see will judge you. In an hour, the majority of those people won't remember seeing you.
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Anonymous2012-06-10 13:02
Feminists are fucking idiots. They learn how to do things that men can do and they wear it on their sleeve like its a badge of honor. Sorry, but it's not. It's just a job.
WHOA I'M A WOMAN AND I KNOW JAVA ISN'T THAT CRAZY? BET YOU DIDN'T EXPECT THAT, HUH? TYPICAL MALE BEHAVIOR HAHAHA.
So fucking obnoxious. It's not even feminism, it's just a stupid way to get attention. Do your job and shut the fuck up, whores.
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Anonymous2012-06-10 18:49
>>25
Then how come I'm not touching any of that good stuff?
>>30
You don't have the right state of mind. The feminist movement implies that society would be better by getting men to change their biologically defined behaviours which have been tempered through years of evolution. If you want to be part of the patriarchy, you need to adopt the mentality of a leader, one who protects and advances the welfare of his people.
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Anonymous2012-06-11 5:05
end the dominance of cis and cis++
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Anonymous2012-06-11 5:28
If you want to be part of the patriarchy, you need to adopt the mentality of a leader, one who protects and advances the welfare of his people.
this is where feminists realise, that being equal means that they have to go out and get a job instead of living off alimony/ child support/welfare, so they start backtracking and try and give men back their power
The freedom to attend a technical conference without fear of sexual assault.
The freedom to participate in social situations or stay at work late without fear that your co-workers or boss will assault you.
If you have been assaulted in a work-related environment, the freedom to switch to another job and be sure it won't happen again there.
Little likelihood that having been assaulted in a previous workplace is held against you in the hiring process.
The freedom to walk home unafraid after a late-night coding spree.
Freedom from fear that your open-source work will make you a target for death threats (note: linked-to post discusses sexual assault and violent threats against women).
The freedom to have a closed-door discussion without worrying that this is an attempt to isolate you to carry out an assault. (See also: Othering)
The likelihood that you will be able to share a hotel room with another member of your company, without fear of unwelcome advances or sexual assault.
The ability to view your career in the male-dominated industry as just a normal stage of progression in life, rather than a serious financial gamble that may put your future in jeopardy if you invest in an education and are never hired due to resistence. Too much time spent fighting "glass doors" and not succeeding will lengthen resume gaps and periods of unemployment and result in loss of wages and opportunities that would accumulate over a lifetime, resulting in an impoverished situation in later years. Poverty is closely linked with living in unsafe neighborhoods and illness.
Not being warned that there will be a backlash if you stand up for your rights.
Not having your complaints about personal safety being dismissed as "Well, you chose to be there," in terms of being in a male-dominated environment, where your gender is not supposed to belong anyway.
Not being perceived as wanting to "start a fight" when you stand up for your rights, thereby losing support from observers.
how you liking your child support females? you want to end male privilege then you are going to have to support yourself by working instead of leeching off men
the day I see single moms get off welfare will be the day they get their privileges
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Anonymous2012-06-11 21:05
>>46
Fuck off and die you cock sucking piece of faggot shit I fucking hate you and all you stand for.
It's stuff like that made me stop working in software development and start a new career in the biosciences. I enjoyed my job but almost every co-worker in the field was a misogynist asshole.
>>54
Some kike terminology for the natural order of things. Everyone who is of sound mind should reject the word "cisgender" and its uses.
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Anonymous2012-06-11 22:32
>>46 If you have been assaulted in a work-related environment, the freedom to switch to another job and be sure it won't happen again there.
Poor understanding of probability and logic in general.
The freedom to attend a technical conference without fear of sexual assault.
The freedom to walk on the street without fear of getting struck by lightning. Really? Also, there is no law against attending a technical conference as a female without fear of sexual assault. You might want to check your definition of freedom, too.
The likelihood that you will be able to share a hotel room with another member of your company, without fear of unwelcome advances or sexual assault.
Oh, we should make it a crime to make advances. But only if a man makes them. That ought to restore equality!
The ability to view your career in the male-dominated industry as just a normal stage of progression in life, rather than a serious financial gamble that may put your future in jeopardy if you invest in an education and are never hired due to resistence. Too much time spent fighting "glass doors" and not succeeding will lengthen resume gaps and periods of unemployment and result in loss of wages and opportunities that would accumulate over a lifetime, resulting in an impoverished situation in later years. Poverty is closely linked with living in unsafe neighborhoods and illness.
Right, because that certainly doesn't affect males. Also, capitalism is a game where the only way to win is not to play.
Not being warned that there will be a backlash if you stand up for your rights.
Not being perceived as wanting to "start a fight" when you stand up for your rights, thereby losing support from observers.
OH-MY-GOD, the speaker just referred to the audience as ,,guys''. Heads will fall! What, he also picked an image that might be interpreted as sexually suggestive as a sample image for his image processing conference! That mysogynist pig, he must die!
The freedom to have a closed-door discussion without worrying that this is an attempt to isolate you to carry out an assault. (See also: Othering)
The entirety of male programmers are to blame for the behaviour of a few idiots with boundary issues, be sure to punish them daily with ,,check your privilege'' enraging idiocies.
Not having your complaints about personal safety being dismissed as "Well, you chose to be there," in terms of being in a male-dominated environment, where your gender is not supposed to belong anyway.
What do you suggest, allowing the carrying of loaded firearms for members of the unfortunate gender so that they can feel a bit safer? Or perhaps enforcing a 1:1 male-to-female ratio (because fuck people outside the gender binary) which will inevitably drag in incompetent members of the non-dominant gender?
Third-wave feminism - fighting illogic and idiocy with more illogic and idiocy since 1983.
lol how's it feel to have a small brain? "kike" hahahahaha I'm in no way jewish but man you are seriously stupid. Tell me about your big jewish conspiracy theory, right? About how the kikes control everything and are keeping you from realizing your potential? hahahahahahahaha just keep wasting what little potential you do have on a useless illusion designed by people who want to harness your small brain to build a fascist empire to serve their will
Not being subjected to a game of "No True Scotsman" when showing interest in a company. For example, never being told that your qualifications are just off the mark when it comes to getting the job. If you have experience, you don't have enough. If you have high grades in a computer subject, grades don't count, and they're not looking for stereotypical nerds. If the company is looking for creative, well-rounded, above-ordinary programmers, your artistic pursuits don't really count because they're not outside-the-box enough.
* The ability to focus on programming instead of being a whiny little bitch about everything that happens in the world that is 100% politically correct.
I have a unisex name (Casey) which a lot of people seem to think is only a girl's name. When people are overtly nice to me on mailing lists, I assume it's because they think I'm a girl. I suspect Guido Van Rossum thinks I'm a girl because he's always handles my bug reports personally.
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You don't necessarily have to, but I would understand if you feel that humbled. The bottom line is you were acting out for attention and you were successful in that. You should feel accomplished. You could make a career of that. The tribal society blended race children of the post apocalypse will shout the joys of ``tHE fEMINIST fEMALE pROGRAMMER'' who did her part in getting male programmers to watch their privilege and thus help subvert the elitist superstructure a little more and ultimately, destructively, allowing it to topple and let you all the live the nice rape-free long lives that you will when it happens.
I'm sure your retellings of it to your grandchildren will be something to behold. You should really follow your heart >>83-chan~!!
C++ is a good language. It is not a perfect language because it inherits from C. C is a flawed language where many things are left undefined. C is an ancient artifact that serves no purpose outside of the domain of kernel design. Because of the improvements made upon C to form C++, beginning programmers and veteran programmers alike may be led astray, thinking that modern C usage is a good idea. It is a mistake to believe the success of C++ justifies the continued use and popularity of C. Just because C++ is successful does not mean the language it has inherited from is of high quality.
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Anonymous2012-06-19 20:25
I just saw this meme posted on /v/. I'm about to kill myself
>>80 LambdaMOO, which is a virtual community still in existence, allows players to interact using avatars. The avatars are user-programmable and may interact automatically with each other and with objects and locations in the community. The "cyberrape" itself was performed by a player named Mr. Bungle. The user behind this avatar ran a "voodoo doll" subprogram that allowed him to make actions that were falsely attributed to other characters in the virtual community. These actions, which included describing sexual acts that characters performed on each other, went far beyond the community norms to that point and continued for several hours. They were interpreted as sexual violation of the avatars who were made to act sexually, and incited outrage among the LambdaMOO users, raising questions about the boundaries between real-life and virtual reality, and how LambdaMOO should be governed.
This Mr. Bungie person is my hero
Following Mr. Bungle's actions, several users posted on the in-MOO mailing list, *social-issues, about the emotional trauma caused by his actions. One user whose avatar was a victim, called his voodoo doll activities "a breach of civility" while, in real life, "post-traumatic tears were streaming down her face".