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by dijit 4222 days ago
I dislike the term feminist because despite noble intentions it causes a lot of controversy.

could you please call it "computer-engineer-barbie" like the URL suggests?

I realise the irony of me pointing this out.

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Wait, why do the idiots get to win for injecting controversy into the word?

Feminist has a very clear, important meaning.

Don't let anyone corrupt it.

If feminists just behaved more to his liking then he'd totally support their efforts.
The comment you're applying to seems correct enough without doubling down on it and using it as a barb. Sometimes people can just be wrong without being bad people.
How'd you even find this post? The community flag killed it within an hour of it being posted.

And the OP is being incredibly condescending to a project that is specifically trying to help deal with that exact condescension. Who is he to ask they rename their project? And specifically to make him feel better about the fact that it promotes feminism. He deserves derision.

I first posted on it at the same time you did.

There's probably no less effective way to persuade people than by pointing out that people who disagree with you "deserve derision". It's a uniquely bad rhetorical strategy. It makes you look like you care less about the underlying issue than you do about status.

It's not about persuasion. The guy doesn't like feminism. What's there to persuade? He's not suddenly going to think "Oh, thanks for typing up a dissertation on why work still needs to be done for women to have to equal opportunity and choice in our community! I hadn't thought of it before."

He's free to not like feminism. I don't care. But as ck2 did, I highlighted how absurd it is that someone came in here with the implicit comment that if the project just made a simple change he wouldn't have a problem with it. That's absurd. If you have a problem with the word feminist you have a problem with feminism, which the project is promoting.

And doubly absurd that your issue is with me and not a community that flagkilled the story within an hour and upvoted a comment asking that the dirty f-word not be used.

I believe the reason for the title is that #FeministHackerBarbie is trending on twitter associated with this site.

--> https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FeministHackerBarbie&src=typ...

> I realise the irony of me pointing this out.

Lewis' law?