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C-Plus-Equality: A Feminist Programming Language

29 points| xcyu | 12 years ago |bitbucket.org | reply

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[+] ddellacosta|12 years ago|reply
It's mind-boggling that someone has spent so much time on this when they could instead have been creating something useful, meaningful, or, at the least, actually funny.
[+] vezzy-fnord|12 years ago|reply
It's just substitution macros for the C++ preprocessor that was probably churned out in no more than 20 minutes (by members of /g/).

The README was collaboratively written by /pol/ viewers.

Actually funny? I thought this was hilarious. Perhaps not if you're unfamiliar with extreme SJW rhetoric, or if you sympathize with it. Either way, it did cause a stir all over the web (especially Reddit), but not here.

[+] yetanotherphd|12 years ago|reply
What you find funny depends a lot on your view of the subject matter. I am not a feminist (in that I don't consider women to be people), and so I found the site quite humorous. Similarly, I don't find feminist web-comics to be funny.
[+] icetan498|12 years ago|reply
I agree. It's a shame that instead of people creating something useful, everyone has to create an "environment that's inviting to womyn" and make sure all their work is "gender neutral and non-sexist."
[+] wmf|12 years ago|reply
The author(s) correctly identify ASCII as basically Hitler, but UTF-8 is still a pretty white-privileged encoding. UCS-4 is more respectful of cultural diversity.
[+] espertus|12 years ago|reply
I'm a card-carrying feminist* and thought it was hilarious, although I can understand how others might feel differently. I guess it depends on whether you see it as a dispute between different schools of feminism or between feminists and anti-feminists. Count me a pro-humor feminist. I never laugh so hard as when I laugh at myself.

*I think my Mills College faculty ID counts.