[craggyjaggy]

The article contains multiple tweets where he doubles down and says even weirder stuff:

> "No one asked for women programmers. We asked for women influencers and instead got 'independent women' in pants suits. Independence does not exist if you want a family. A woman should prioritize being a good mother and wife, not a coding machine. 'Mother/Wife' is a great job,"

How do literally multiple paragraphs of misogynistic bullshit pass as a "joke" for you?

[floor2]

I'm confused as to how you don't understand that it's a joke.

None of those statements are literal. He does not believe those things. Nobody does. Those statements are jokes because they are absurd, unexpected and ironic.

This is equivalent to somebody writing that "birds aren't real" and people laughing, and you getting upset because birds are real. The absurdity is the humor.

Does that help explain it?

[vba616]

Well, you never know, because people exploit ambiguity or even just blunder into it. Sometimes people don't even know what they really mean.

Going around saying "you idiot, don't you understand the 'use-mention distinction'?" could itself be considered kind of obtuse. In real life, it is not cut and dry. People muddy the water on purpose as a deniability tactic constantly.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...]

[belter]

Because he made a career of outrageous statements I do not take anything he says at face value. What I know, is that many of his videos made me fall from the chair several times laughing, and his business is YouTube views and selling Tech Lead shirts...