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A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell

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Re: A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell

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Post by ajuc »

anticristi wrote: post #11
Fr33maan wrote: post #4

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I have strictly no idea why OP is using women nor in the title or illustrations

It reinforces the stereotype that only women are mean. I would dislike a title reinforcing stereotypes about me: "Detox for Alcoholic East Europeans: Haskell type enforcement".

It's funny how often the people "fighting" a stereotype are the people that bring them up in the first place and thus spread them.

Re: A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell

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Post by ibrarmalik »

jpxw wrote: post #25
lazyjones wrote: post #20

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It's kinda nerdy and very clickbait-ish but sexist? Probably not, but who am I to judge. Old, white and male means I am not entitled to any opinion on such matters, by today's standards.

Just because you’re “old, white and male” doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to have an opinion. Don’t let anybody make you feel like that.

I think it was obvious that he doesn't believe that and he's just playing the victim. Nobody in the comments has mentioned anything about white males not having an opinion, and this is a typical argument (and a strawman) that people use to derail the discussion.

Re: A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell

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Post by anticristi »

cdash wrote: post #15
anticristi wrote: post #11

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It reinforces the stereotype that only women are mean. I would dislike a title reinforcing stereotypes about me: "Detox for Alcoholic East Europeans: Haskell type enforcement".

No such stereotype says only women are mean.

C'mon. It's a well-known "fact" (please read that with sarcasm) that women gossip more and are more mean: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2017.14...

Re: A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell

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Post by boomboomsubban »

docdeek wrote: post #17
anticristi wrote: post #11

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It reinforces the stereotype that only women are mean. I would dislike a title reinforcing stereotypes about me: "Detox for Alcoholic East Europeans: Haskell type enforcement".

I've never heard a stereotype that suggests only women are mean. Perhaps it's a cultural trope?

They are referencing the old idea that men handle disagreement with violence while women handle it by being mean to each other. Saying "only women at mean" is hyperbolic, but they likely are stereotypes.

Re: A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell

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Post by paulchap »

anticristi wrote: post #11
Fr33maan wrote: post #4

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I have strictly no idea why OP is using women nor in the title or illustrations

It reinforces the stereotype that only women are mean. I would dislike a title reinforcing stereotypes about me: "Detox for Alcoholic East Europeans: Haskell type enforcement".

I don't know the movie, so I agree with the title being a bit strange, and I probably could have done with a slightly more factually oriented article, but I appreciate the effort to keep it light. And the stereotypical girls' cliques the article seems to riff on do exist... Girls are known to be more relationally aggressive than boys, who tend to be more physically aggressive than girls. Girls also behave in a more pro-social fashion, so girls' cliques are often larger than boys' cliques, creating more complicated power dynamics. That said, I don't really get what you mean. That's like saying a book called "Good Habits for Incompetent Managers" reinforces the stereotype that only managers are incompetent.

Re: A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell

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Post by Fr33maan »

1_player wrote: post #8
Fr33maan wrote: post #4

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I have strictly no idea why OP is using women nor in the title or illustrations

Is mentioning women off limits nowadays? Come on. It might as well been "Kindness for Mean Boys" and the meaning and implications of it would not change a single iota, except losing the movie reference and light tone the author wanted to go for.

I dont have this reference. Kindness for mean boys would have certainly be less controversial but still off topic. Never said that mentioning women is off limits. I don t get why you ask this as an amswer to my statement. Thanks for the movie reference

Re: A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell

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Post by Fr33maan »

asutekku wrote: post #12
Fr33maan wrote: post #4

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I have strictly no idea why OP is using women nor in the title or illustrations

It’s just a reference to the Mean Girls movie. Works well with haskell’s kind → mean.

ok I do understand why I didn t understood

Re: A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell

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Post by bitcharmer »

HighlandSpring wrote: post #5
anticristi wrote: post #2

Does anyone else think the title is sexist by today's standards?

Would you like to elaborate how? Or are you just being pre-emptively offended on someone else's behalf?

It's quite sad that this oppression olympics is now poisoning HN's comments section.
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