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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:50:26 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

> 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". 

No more so than right-wingers call anyone even slightly left "socialist" 
or "communist".

It it interesting to see how *rarely* the people accused of being 
"socialists" by right-wingers actually believe in socialist memes, while 
how *commonly* people accused of being "fascists" by the left actually 
believe and follow fascist memes.



-- 
Steven