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by debbit
Sun Feb 02, 2014 10:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gender and the LÖVE community (A Community-Culture Problem)
Replies: 71
Views: 24741

Re: A Community-Culture Problem With Gender

Azhukar wrote: Glad you cleared that up.
Touche, I guess? Nonetheless I think the 'culture', or whatever it is that gave rise to these names, probably should change.
by debbit
Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gender and the LÖVE community (A Community-Culture Problem)
Replies: 71
Views: 24741

Re: A Community-Culture Problem With Gender

So you're directly addressing individual people that you have a problem with for naming their libraries in a way you don't like? Or are you asking for website-wide censorship of naughty words? No, and no. I'm expressing my own concerns and reactions and feelings in general agreement with the origin...
by debbit
Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gender and the LÖVE community (A Community-Culture Problem)
Replies: 71
Views: 24741

Re: A Community-Culture Problem With Gender

Azhukar wrote: Good, then you have no problem since the framework is called LOVE.
No problem with the core framework, but I think we're talking about something broader than that.
by debbit
Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gender and the LÖVE community (A Community-Culture Problem)
Replies: 71
Views: 24741

Re: A Community-Culture Problem With Gender

The principle is more of manners rather than morality. If a virtual machine were named CockVM, or some sort, with the word displayed prominently on its reference pages -- yeah, I'd have the same complaint.
by debbit
Sun Feb 02, 2014 8:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gender and the LÖVE community (A Community-Culture Problem)
Replies: 71
Views: 24741

Re: A Community-Culture Problem With Gender

Is there some critical mass of this evidence that will make library authors grudgingly acknowledge the problem? I'm sure once someone provides any evidence at all it will become clearer. Okay, here's some evidence: sometimes I like to code in public or semi-public locations at a coffee shop, librar...
by debbit
Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gender and the LÖVE community (A Community-Culture Problem)
Replies: 71
Views: 24741

Re: A Community-Culture Problem With Gender

This insistence on the primacy of 'data' is a little hilarious. On the one hand opinions and subjective anecdotes are dismissed as 'irrelevant' while on the other hand we are supposed to go out and compile survey data consisting of exactly the same sort of opinion and subjective anecdote. Is there s...