Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?

[Steve Hayes]

On 17 Oct 2013 05:48:10 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:22:47 -0400, random832 wrote:
>
>> While this flippant usage of "Nazi" (based on, as I understand it,
>> Seinfeld's "soup nazi") may be offensive, it has nothing to do with
>> sexism. If the scope of this discussion is to be offensive module names
>> generally, then the subject line should have mentioned that.
>
>Almost one entire branch of my family (maternal grandfather's side) were 
>murdered in the Nazi death camps during the Holocaust, but what I find 
>offensive is the idea that all figurative or non-historical mention of 
>the Nazis ought to be verboten. (I know that's not what *you* wrote, but 
>others, the more earnest left-wing politically-correct types in 
>particular, have said such things.) I'm particularly disturbed by the 
>idea that I personally ought to be offended by terms such as "soup nazi" 
>or "grammar nazi", and if I'm not, there's something wrong with me.

I thought left-wing types were particularly prone to using such terms, and
tend to freely call anyone even slightly to the right of them "fascist". But
since both Nazis and fqascists were authoritarian types, perhaps we can create
a portmanteau word to cover it -- how about "grammatarian" for "authoritarian
grammarian". 

No, don't tell me.

The libertarians will object. 



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