darraghmac, only one of the guys from playhaven was fired. adria richards was fired because she "divided the same community she was supposed to unite"...
― 1staethyr, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
the story of a party where she sees someone's raid array and yells "oh, hot-swappable!" and before anyone can stop her, yanked out the drives, which were not at all 'hot-swappable' and caused this persons system to come to a screeching halt and destroyed lots of data that had to be restored from backups.
OK this is amazing.
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Her being fired is obv ludicrous, i just didnt want to be mentioning only the guy tbh
― mister borges (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
also musicians, and bankers, and chefs, and lawyers, and businessmen, and suddenly it's starting to seem like this has nothing to do with "intrinsic or specialised skills"― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, April 3, 2013
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
lmao at the "hot-swappable" story
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
she took the post down but it wasn't about modulus of a number, but rounding to the nearest half:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=104164
― s.clover, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, so is it common to know this much detail about project managers & developers?
― beach situations (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
lead dev/cto/founder of an internet startup that had some heat for a moment. lots of stories tended to fly around about ppl. like that during the web booms, especially when they were like active bloggers in social media, speaking at conferences, etc.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
I dislike Lena Dunham, but this "won't anyone think of the men?!?" article still made me LOL: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/03/dunham_cant_write_men_partner/
― rallying against young people who wear hats (Nicole), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
jeez that's bad. looking forward to the entire internet devolving into a continual airing of grievances.
― ryan, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
"looking forward"
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
― rallying against young people who wear hats (Nicole), Wednesday, April 3, 2013 4:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what a bad, bad article. when I read stuff like this I think about the fact that people this shitty are making a living writing and then I remember that not really
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
it's just so depressingly typical. and now we're linking to it and talking about it. blegh.
― ryan, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
so long as you say something suitably provocative enough to necessitate a response (and the internet is nothing if not an involuntary response machine for provocations) you win.
― ryan, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
Lena Dunham should be able to write realistic men characters, such as Ricky Ricardo and Fred Mertz, and she should make them funny godammit.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
i suppose it's not as depressing to see Salon sink to this stuff, unlike, say, what's become of the Atlantic.
― ryan, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure a jezebel blogger will respond, and then a male slate blogger will take a "middle ground" approach, and then gawker will do a smug, keeping a distance, not-taking-sides piece, and then a (surprise) male blogger will write for XX about how he actually does relate to the male characters.
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
not only is that article a screechingly sarcastic whinge but i'm now aware of salon's "popular on reddit" widget
yeesh
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Why does Lena Dunham reduce men to walking hard-ons? Because dudes are "simple," as she tells Refinery29 in an interview published this week.
wow, writer reduces opposite sex to one-dimensional sex objects, I had certainly never encountered this until someone gave a woman some crayons
I mean I am totally stating the obvious to the point that I wasn't entirely sure if the whole article was a pisstake, but... it didn't seem to be
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
plus that's clearly not what Dunham said or meant!
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
relentless technosexuality (DJP)
curse you Dan I was this close from making my very first display name
― kinder, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
tbf men are actually walking hard-ons
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
reduce men to walking hard-ons; remove from heat and fold in batter. Bake for 25 minutes at 375 and serve with creme fraiche
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
haha oops
all I keep thinking of is the PSB Relentless CD
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/201209/06/57/a0201157_141647.jpg
― kinder, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
sry hueg
NO HALF MEASURES
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
50% juice
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
100% FLAVOUR
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
NO HALF MEASURES― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, April 3, 2013 5:14 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink50% juice― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, April 3, 2013 5:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, April 3, 2013 5:14 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, April 3, 2013 5:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
haha this killed me
― Heyman (crüt), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
Without wishing to be needlessly argumentative, when the issue is unintentionally offensive language making women feel uncomfortable in male-dominated spaces, does it matter if the context is professional or personal? Is there not a case for saying that if there's a chance that female posters will disengage with a board as male-dominated as ILX because of the number of dick jokes it's better to err on the side of caution and not make them?
― Des Fusils Pour Banter (ShariVari), Thursday, 4 April 2013 07:33 (eleven years ago) link
Pole
― mister borges (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 April 2013 07:40 (eleven years ago) link
There's definitely a case to be made there, but there is more focus and higher stakes when the context that makes you uncomfortable is your career rather than a message board.
xp thanks to darragh for clarifying it's the dicks rather than the jokes.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 April 2013 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
The first time you're ever right about anything, and you spoil it by a lazy gendered swipe at me in a 67th minute xp beef. Gutted for you.
― mister borges (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 April 2013 09:05 (eleven years ago) link
There absolutely is.
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Thursday, 4 April 2013 12:05 (eleven years ago) link
For example, the reduction joke I made upthread could be off putting to people who would like to participate in this thread despite my intent, which was to lampoon the ridiculousness of the guy complaining about Lena Dunham by putting his absurd words in a more absurd context. I don't want that to happen regardless of how clever/funny I think the joke I'm making is. So, from this point forward, I'll refrain from making those types of comments, especially here.
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Thursday, 4 April 2013 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
apologies for the jokes I made on this thread. I'm trying to be a better person.
― Heyman (crüt), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
I thought yr joek was funny, Dan, but I appreciate that we can all self-reflect a bit more esp in places that are supposed to be chill for everyone.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
Actually, at present I am seated.
― But I'm having so much foehn! (Michael White), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
I thought it was too, but....oh well.
xp
― rallying against young people who wear hats (Nicole), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
A funny joke can still make someone uncomfortable. Sometimes the funniest jokes are ones that make people uncomfortable (hi dere, Chris Rock's standup career). I don't think my pathological need to make jokes is more important than having an inclusive, welcoming message board, particularly on a thread where we are talking through issues of sexism.
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
Admitting you have a problem is the first step
― c21m50nm3x1c4n (wins), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
It wasn't really a "dick joke" anyway, the language that might have made anyone uncomfortable had already been used & yr joke was more around the word "reduced" so I doubt there's cause to worry although yr point is well-taken otherwise
― c21m50nm3x1c4n (wins), Thursday, 4 April 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:36 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Read this as a speech balloon over a cartoon of a walking hard-on.
― beach situations (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 8 April 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
John "ROTTEN" Lydon on Aussie TV recently, being an arse.
http://youtu.be/N4ZmopI-GUQ?t=3m26s
― DavidM, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, not surprised. I saw some awful interview where he confirmed my worst fears about The Body.
― beach situations (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
He's obviously a prick and no doubt sexist (e.g. use of "birds" in this very clip) but I think where it looks like he is telling the woman "Do not interrupt A MAN" he is just using one of the inflexibly pompous locutions that make up what is left of the poor fella. What a waste.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
He was pretty fucking nasty to Welsh pop singer Duffy (who is TERRIBLE but that's not really important) at an awards show I was at a few years ago.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
Would Ian Curtis have been nicer to duffy, do you think?
― My Sunn0))), My Sunn0))), What Have Ye Drone? (wins), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Many punk/post-punk musicians fail "The Duffy Test"
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link