Spamming PyPI with stupid packages

[Devin Jeanpierre]

> Nonsense. Felinx is free to make sexist jokes, and others are free to
> howl him down when he does so. PyPI has no obligation to be a platform
> to amplify anyone's prejudice.

A module named "girlfriend" won't amplify anyone's prejudice. It is,
at that point, just a joke. The punchline is "import girlfriend", and
the joke makes fun of geeky losers, not women.

But, hey, inertia. As long as we're trying to make this dude get rid
of the offensive part, might as well get rid of the rest too. Why not
make him get rid of everything he's written, too? Woo, party time!

-- Devin

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> writes:
>
>> Felinx Lee wrote:
>>
>> > I have removed those packages (girlfriend and others) from PyPI
>> > forever, I apologize for that.
>>
>> The thought police has won :(
>
> Nonsense. Felinx is free to make sexist jokes, and others are free to
> howl him down when he does so. PyPI has no obligation to be a platform
> to amplify anyone's prejudice.
>
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