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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.
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It seems like a decent way to engage women in the content of the article to me. I think that is one of the aims, and why not? The article was written by a woman after all.
True, it just brings back bad memories from EU's "Science: It's a girls thing" campaign. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/jun/29/science...
There’s a “Stop trying to make Haskell happen, Gretchen - it’s not going to happen!” joke here, somewhere.
A discussion of the Haskell type system is not what I expected when clicking that link.
Be honest, what was your very first thought?
(I never even considered "this is HN so it's probably tech-related". Don't know what that says about me or the site!)
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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.
Old, white and male — we are probably both plenty entitled. But life is generally favorable to us, so we are often better off listening to those actually affected by this.
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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.
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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".
None of the types in the theme here make much sense. They are arbitrary. The contribution to writing a robust program is questionable and they don't do much to explain concepts.
May as well stick with classic "Goats are mammals; that should be enough to get you going with OOP" examples, at least they are less distracting.
I'm not a fan of this article.