HELP!! How to ask a girl out with a simple witty Python code??

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Mar 5 18:07:13 EST 2015


On 05/03/2015 22:59, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:
>
>> Ben Finney wrote:
>>
>>> sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com writes:
>>>
>>>> I should have known better than to make a joke on this mailing
>>>> list. Someone is bound to get their panties all up in a bunch.
>>>
>>> You should have known better than to make gendered slurs. Claiming
>>> “it was a joke” doesn't alter the sexism of your remarks. Cut that
>>> out.
>>
>> "You're asking a bunch of nerds for dating advice?"
>
> “get their panties all up in a bunch” is a gendered slur. It is implying
> the person is female, as though the person should feel insulted by that.
> It uses the female gender as an insult.
>
> That's not welcoming to anyone female, and we should all be welcoming to
> anyone of any gender here — which includes not using any gender as the
> punch-line of a joke.
>

I just wish this kind of approach was used consistently across the 
board.  That way we wouldn't have had to put up with the appalling slurs 
from our RUE (Resident Unicode Expert) for perhaps two years.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence




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