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Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

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Well.. you got the comments section stirred up with just a landing page and an idea. Good job.

Ignoring the moral issue of this.. can't this be replicated by making a private group on Facebook? Your friends are already on Facebook.. and the girls probably are too!

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

#42

This is the most disgusting, gratuitous display of misogyny I have ever seen.

Gailees lists his facebook on his profile: https://www.facebook.com/davefontenot Let me just say, David, that you're a cretin. You're why my female friends don't want shit to do with geek culture. You're poison in the well.

Playing devils advocate..

Lots of people (guys and girls) already discuss this info with their close friends so this is just taking that conversation online.

I think that linking his Facebook in an aggressive comment isn't appropriate.

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

#43
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Is this a fucking joke? Who needs this? This is not only classless, but from a purely objective standpoint, who would actually use this thing? With your target demographic in mind, it seems to me like it will turn into the greasiest, skeeziest, cesspool on the entire internet in no time.

Just broke 100 signups.

You may eventually realize that not all publicity is good publicity.

...bro.

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

#44
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I agree with you completely. The problem is that I don't think the behavior you're encouraging solves that. Talking about hookups is almost always about objectification: it's encouraging people to talk openly about relationships, yes, but relationships between people and objects of sexual gratification rather than between actual mature adults.

I always find it fascinating how the prevailing christian attitudes about sex have spread so well to the entire population, even as that same population is less and less christian. In this case, you are implying that mature adults sex lives should not include one night stands with people they have no emotional attachment to. Why?

You miss the point, deliberately and repeatedly. This is glorifying the treating of women as objects, and bragging about having done so.

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

#45
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Guys are already talking to each other about the girls they hookup with -- we just made the process more digital and secure.

Just because people are already doing some sort of negative and disrespectful thing, that doesn't make it alright to build a tool to actively encourage people to continue doing it.

Are you saying that talking with your closest friends about the girls you've been with is negative and disrespectful?

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

#46
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because people are already doing some sort of negative and disrespectful thing, that doesn't make it alright to build a tool to actively encourage people to continue doing it.

Are you saying that talking with your closest friends about the girls you've been with is negative and disrespectful?

Can be, often is, yup.

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

#47
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because people are already doing some sort of negative and disrespectful thing, that doesn't make it alright to build a tool to actively encourage people to continue doing it.

Are you saying that talking with your closest friends about the girls you've been with is negative and disrespectful?

To put it succinctly: a gentleman doesn't kiss and tell.

It's disrespectful of the trust that your partner places in you by engaging in what is fundamentally a private interaction to share it publicly without their permission.

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