Comment by Crake
11 years ago
"But she still has to type it again, over and over, taking a tiny but not quite negligible emotional hit of feeling excluded every single time."
The idea that a woman would literally be repeatedly emotionally traumatized by typing a three letter combination would be hilarious if it weren't so blatantly misogynistic.
All programmers should realise that being _forced_ to type a word that is loosely tied to a gender that isn't your own is a crushing emotional hit, probably comparable to rape.
I feel ill all of a sudden thinking about all the disabled graphic designers that are forced to use GIMP every day.