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Comment by lhnz

11 years ago

Are you winding me up?

Was man also misogynistic?

Besides:

    curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org

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mtrimpe  11 years ago

You're shitting us right? Manpages referred to manuals, not men.

But given that I'm obviously swimming against the tide here at HN I'll just cave .....

Word, brah! Like, totally right on! We should be making like 'sispages' next with like only explanations and shit. Get it? For like the sissy-grammers! Awesome dude. You da bomb!

  • pstack  11 years ago

    I can't tell if people here are being intentionally thick or not.

    "Is bro supposed to be sexist or is it meant to be ironic?"

    "Man referred to manual, not men!"

    I can't even imagine many of you people watching a stand-up comic. Your heads must verge on exploding. The diagram for the pun/humor here would be about as simple as a diagram could be.

    • neumann  11 years ago

      Well, bad comedy is still bad. Much like the naming of this idea.

      The term is already reserved for a subgroup that celebrates itself for being exclusionary, crass and insistently unreflective about its privilege in society.

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    • smtddr  11 years ago

      >>I can't even imagine many of you people watching a stand-up comic.

      For the record, I think comedians like Louis CK & Dave Chappelle do society a disservice by making serious issues into trivial jokes but that's just me. So yeah, there are some people out there who can't watch those types of stand-up comics. I also believe the term "brogrammer" and the issues of sexism in tech has pretty much taken over the term "bro" whether you like it or not. The word "gay" originally means "happy", but it would be absurd to use it today and expect people to interpret it with that definition now. In the world of sports, "bro" probably still just means "Come on, bro!"... but in tech, the term has taken a new definition. To officially use that term in the tech-sphere and pretend you don't know the negative ideas it brings to mind is ignorant/insensitive at best, or just plain terrible & purposely malicious at worse.

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      Disclaimer: I'm not going to debate this so don't bother replying me asking pedantic questions or setting up hypothetical situations. Everyone has a bar for sensitivity & respect. I think yours is too low, you probably think mine is way too high. I'm sure you have a bunch of friends/coworkers that agree with you and I have a bunch that agree with me. Don't know where that leaves us... but there you go. Just adding a data point. Off I go...

    • wonderzombie  11 years ago

      Why should anyone's head explode? A stand-up comic who isn't funny pisses off the audience, it's incredibly painful to watch, and the comic doesn't get invited back.

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    • DanBC  11 years ago

      I have this really funny cat picture. We'll vectorise it and use it for the logo. Because, lol, funny, right?

  • lhnz  11 years ago

    Yes, I was kidding about 'man', but my point is that 'bro' isn't that exclusionary.

    In fact, I think the problem here is that a lot of geeks don't like 'bros' and I am doubting that they're hated by women as much. Personal opinion here, but: a lot of women have friends that are bros; a lot fewer geeks have friends that are bros.

    • wildgift  11 years ago

      Yes. Geek culture isn't about being a bro. When I think about "bros" I think about guys who party, and then let someone else do the work. It's about power disguised as being carefree. Geek culture is about a kind of unification of mind and action. It's also about creativity within traditions.

  • 001sky  11 years ago

    Exactly...this is merley trend_bastardization...not original thinking.

    ...but hey #1 on HN...

    Let's call it a "growth hack", bro ;D

chrisrhoden  11 years ago

> Was man also misogynistic?

man is short for manual. What is bro short for?

  • cdcarter  11 years ago

    Brochure. Which, despite the tounge-in-cheek joke I was trying to make, actually tends to be a shorter and more example driven document about a product.

    • zhemao  11 years ago

      That's actually hilarious. Very clever. I don't think the people complaining about the name in this thread will appreciate the joke, though.