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on: To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
The popular understanding of feminism is that it aims for equality between men and women. You've more or less said "you don't understand feminism" without explaining how, exactly, feminism doesn't aim for equality. Not very useful if your aim is to increase understanding of your viewpoint.
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on: To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
There are men's rights practitioners that support the egalitarian aims of feminism. Equality is what reasonable MRAs and feminists want. Unreasonable MRAs and feminists, however, are more interested in having someone to blame.
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on: To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
Mainstream segments of the movement, if you will. The mainstream of any movement is where a sense of tribal identity emerges that's likely to engage in partisan disparagement of other movements seen as opposition.
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on: To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
It's almost as if movements in general - feminism and the men's rights movement included - are prone to partisan sensationalism.
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on: To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
There are some Muslim leaders that express disturbing things as well. Once again, this does not make them the voice of mainstream Islam. If you actually visit a large men's rights community, like
http://reddit.com/r/mensrights, you'll find that some women participate in discussion as well and the men are not the rape-happy bugaboos that many paint MRAs in general to be.
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on: To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
Before the dotcom era and the mainstreaming of geek chic, programming used to be considered pretty uncool. Men and women who went into it were seen as nerds. For women, more so than men, finding a mate has been seen as part of being able to survive comfortably. So women stayed away from the stigma of programming, lest it lessen their attractiveness. Now, after things reversed and geek chic became mainsteam, the profession's seen as cool. Other professions seen as less cool (trades for example) don't seem to be the targets of the diversity lobby.
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on: To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
Cherry picking incidents involving the actions of disturbed individuals to attempt to smear a multifaceted movement is intellectually dishonest. That's like claiming all Muslims are terrorists because some Muslims are.
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on: To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
Your statement is about as intelligent as saying feminists are indistinguishable from trolls. The men's rights movement, like feminism, isn't monolithic.
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on: The Next Phase of Node.js
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on: The Next Phase of Node.js
>The money you gave to Nodejitsu to continue supporting npm was a huge part of getting us in front of the exponential growth curve.
The $300,000 is gone already?
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on: The Next Phase of Node.js
I'm not sure if Joyent's blog, which characterized him as an "asshole", would qualify as a minority voice.
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on: The Next Phase of Node.js
How offensive. Aren't you aware that empathy is a core engineering value?
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on: The Next Phase of Node.js
Yes. Joyent directed public wrath at an individual, over a political issue, who was a key employee of a competitor. This employee then left the community. Then, a day or two after, Joyent launched a competing offering IIRC. The Node project blog then essentially told the Node community to stop talking about the issue out of "respect", with no plea for the exiled individual to return to the community. Isaac was a key individual involved in this drama, defending the purge by claiming he'd received an abusive email from the exiled employee.
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on: The Next Phase of Node.js
"Last year" is a funny way to frame 2 months ago.
