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> Ahh, but that's the guts of male privilege isn't it. Their hard-earned success was much easier to come by than a women whose achieved the same level of success. That's what privi…

> As a two word phrase which everyone understands to mean the social theory that men have unearned social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are granted to them sol…

> Let's put it this way: words change over time, and if the word changed in the 70s (that was before I was even alive), then it's changed, and the words we use _now_ matter _now_. …

> 1) There's no 'redefinition' going on here. "However, Money's meaning of the word [gender] did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the distinctio…

> Well, let's clear it up then: "Male privilege refers to the social theory that men have unearned social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are granted to them sol…

> There are two reasons why "female" is problematic: .. Your reply demonstrates some standard rhetorical landmines used by fringe groups: 1) Redefine words within your subculture (…

> If you can't recognize that men have a vast amount of privilege compared to women, then I don't really know what to say. The locally-defined concept of "male privilege" is quite …

Compared to advancing your knowledge of programming, CAD, et al, it's a lot easier to bolster your ego and social standing with video games, so that's what those kids do. I think t…

> Are you saying that 90% of the female population has no balls? No. The major hurdles to becoming a programmer are crossed long before it becomes time to put code in a github repo…

> ... except with a passing glance at someone who feels slighted for something that doesn't affect him at all. If the Ada Initiative didn't affect the rest of the industry at all, …

To quote another story on the front page: ... that’s what happens when we hold events for women in IT when there aren’t that many women in this industry – we tend to broaden the de…

In a conversation that's already quite likely to run off the rails, playing a one-sided vocabulary shaming game is unlikely to improve the dialogue.

People are also free to criticize Github for any reason they want to. Personally, I think the Ada Initiative is doing far more harm than good. They're pushing a strange brand of co…

> Instead, they are going on the record and saying its not true. It's not like "going on record" means anything; truth is an oddly malleable thing. What's true today might not be t…

Does that make his statement more or less likely to be accurate?

Said every founder of every acquired company, ever :) Are you referring to Etacts (acquired by Salesforce)?

> Seeing as how I had to google PKI to see what it was, I doubt I'd be able to build a Parse-like service in one afternoon. Then it's something you would learn, and those several a…

It also means you own the system, don't get screwed over when Parse gets bought, and all for just a little bit of work. Seems like a small amount to pay for something that will ess…

> Yes. (at least on iOS, not sure about Android or Win) er, what? It's an afternoon's worth of work, involving basic PKI and TCP sockets. I know it's an afternoon's worth of work, …

Unfortunately, intentions about how you'll operate after an acquisition are just wishes. There's a huge corporate political apparatus that just paid a lot of money for the right to…

> Call people douchebag for their actions. Like choosing to wear a stupid-looking $1,500 distraction-generator?