Comment by blhack
11 years ago
I took a poll of the other person in our hackerspace right now: she thinks this is funny.
>Isn't it way more offensive to assume that women are such dainty delicate creatures that like, they won't get the joke?
I think so. Every female hacker I've ever talked to has expressed that their worst fear is people acting differently around them. They want to get treated like humans, not like outsiders.
Banishing any sort of word play because "the women" is pretty offensive to women.
I took a poll of me, and I think it's bad and not funny. Now we're equal.
I took a poll of the only other person in my house at the moment. She thinks it's juvenile and she certainly wouldn't want to recommend it to other people in a public setting.
Your anecdata, voluntary, sample-size-of-one survey has completely changed my mind. I feel terrible for having thought this was tacky before. To whom do I submit my abject apologies?
EDIT: Also:
Banishing any sort of word play because "the women"...
Straw-man.
As others have said, it doesn't matter if you can find a counter example. So you have a sample size of 1 and you think that matters at all?