[throwaway86]

Yes. Filter gem names to block terrible, woman-hating names like retarded, therapist, hoe, and sex. A rake is an immoral pleasure seeker[1], better get rid of that one too! That will fix your community's problems, Ruby, because that's totally what the problem is! You nailed it!

Or rather than a bunch of dudes blogging about how to fix the problem, we listen to the women for once and not treat them like a tiny snowflake, ready to melt if they read the word fuck. Christ almighty. Nothing perpetuates this sort of shit more than male voices of authority saying "women can't handle a gem named 'bj'! We're assholes if we let it stand!"

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5H5r4_CoJo

Edit: Good, this pile of shit got flagged off HN.

[hobs]

To be fair, rape-me is over the top. Sex being bad though? Do women hate sex? When did sex become misogyny? :(

[yaddayadda]

I'd add bitch and recursive_pimp_slap to the clearly over the top list.

[hobs]

Oh yeah, I don't mean there were not more that were over the top, I just thought the point was better made in brief.

[throwaway86]

I agree with you on rape-me, which is why I left it out. There's an American breed of thought which says that the mere mention of anything related to sex demeans women and objectifies them, which comes from puritanical sensibilities. I've been in a meeting where someone discussed something sexual which was actually in-context to make a point about a product, and someone interrupted him and said "let's not discuss sexual matters, there are women present."

Smoked a cigarette with the woman in question later that day and she basically rolled her eyes about it.