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Comment by AndyKelley

11 years ago

What's wrong with gendered things? The programming language Julia is female, and nobody seems to have a problem with that. What's wrong with a tool that has a male gendered name?

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Crake  11 years ago

I'm sure some feminist somewhere is offended by it. I mean, we say that we use programming languages for things. So clearly using Julia is condoning rape of women, or some such nonsense.

donotsurveil  11 years ago

Julia is a first name which is free of negative association.

Bro is associated with obnoxious, stupid, despicable, disrespectful.

  • etjossem  11 years ago

    Git is associated with completely ignorant, childish, and lacking in manners. So what? It's the name of a piece of software, and if there's sufficient adoption, it starts to lose its old meaning in a tech context.

    Which, for "bro", is fine by me.

  • wutbrodo  11 years ago

    > Bro is associated with obnoxious, stupid, despicable, disrespectful.

    This sounds a hell of a lot more like an issue with you vs an issue with the term. When I think of 'bro', I think of the short form of calling someone brother endearingly. I wasn't even aware of the frat context until a few years ago. Hell, even within the frat context, it's not necessary "obvnoxious, stupid, despicable, disrespectful", it's just a young guy who's part of the party culture that's associated with college, at least in the US.

  • girvo  11 years ago

    Seriously? That is what you get from "bro"? Somehow I have a feeling the issue lies in you, not the word there :/

  • mkr-hn  11 years ago

    I never get that impression when my brother calls me "little bro." And all my friends who were/are close enough to treat like brothers. I'd call women who are that close sis if the culture around gender weren't so weird and arbitrary.