Mick Golden Blood said:
Formica Archonis said:
I'm glad someone got a smackdown for this. Because there's one rule you MUST follow when doing high-profile corporate open source work: You don't commit ANYTHING you don't want to see in the paper the next day. You're a coder writing a hypervisor for fuck's sake, not a preschooler who just learned a new "dirty" word.
I've known too many coders with the mental development of a five year old. I'm glad to see one of them got caught at it and damaged his career. (Fairly badly, too. Ballmer's crackhead employee ranking scheme means every department head needs a fall guy for almost every employee evaluation cycle. Guess who just volunteered for the pits of a 2.5/4 rank on the next one?)
Wow, so this little joke you believe this guy should be fired and never have a job in his career again and essentially go work at mcDonald's or something?
honestly i wouldn't want this guy working at McDonald's either, because there's a good chance they think farting on cheeseburgers would be funny too.
It's
unprofessional. Coders who pull this kind of crap aren't taking their job seriously, and it is entirely appropriate for an employer to take disciplinary action (not necessarily firing, but absolutely a stern talking to) because this kind of bullshit damages the company's reputation.
Mick Golden Blood said:
Words cannot express how gravely disappointed and angry I am right now.
This is no big deal.
The feministwhore on dead island thing was no big deal.
Sadly, it's quite honestly, just everyone hating on the white guy for all their problems. They're just bashing on 'the white man' just to bash on them. It's mob mentality. Similar mentality as the KKK where they viewed all black men as a blight on their society, now it's the white man that's a blight on the whole motherfucking world, for every fucking ethnicity and female person out there.
Who said anything about "the white man"? How do you know the person responsible was even white? (I admit it's a fairly safe to assume that a man was responsible, but on the off chance that it actually was a woman then that doesn't
Mick Golden Blood said:
You know what's really horrible and sexist? The fact that women gain half of a man's wealth and property after divorce and normally also recieves alimony payments from him just cus he has a penis.
And that a huge unacceptable percentage of males are forced at child birth to have a circumcision but female genital mutilation is somehow totally unacceptable in comparison. Just cus he has a penis.
And that only males can be drafted to fight and die in wars while the females sit around at home. Just cus he has a penis.
THAT is sexism. Not some little private fucking joke. But of course nobody cares about THOSE issues.
Yeah. Everyone needs to shut the fuck up about this shit. This is NOTHING.
Yo, gender equality isn't a zero-sum game? talking about these issues isn't stopping you from bringing up yours.
Though the draft thing is pretty much a joke, btw. There's no political will to ever reinstate the draft in America, and if it ever became a serious issue again it would probably ended up abolished entirely. Meanwhile in the actual military, women are struggling to get into assignments that traditionally have been given only to men.
The Plunk said:
cobra_ky said:
Jesus Christ, sometimes I don't know why I even bother with this site anymore.
Two whole pages of people whining about feminism and how overblown this story is.
0 actual feminists taking exception.
Well, let me be the first then. Yes, it's sexist. Yes, it reinforces a negative perception of the software development industry. Yes, Microsoft is doing the right thing by apologizing and patching it out.
Story over, situation resolved, let's move on.
Please explain to me how this is in any way sexist.
It's sexually objectifying a portion of the female anatomy, in a context where it's completely inappropriate to do so.
