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Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by Matt_Cutts »

djcapelis wrote: post #110
georgeorwell wrote: post #103

Warning: this is not a politically correct viewpoint, but nevertheless it's my perspective. The actual best thing about this post being in first place on Hacker News is not that it's a woman posting but that she has a Y chromosome and most people don't realize it. It's like her recently-acquired vagina is a new laptop to be hacked. It's still objectification of women if you try to turn into one and then objectify you…

My girlfriend wrote this post for the same reason she wrote the the other posts on her blog: to share her work and talk about neat hacks. Your statement that she's doing it for attention is incredibly sexist. Also she's queer, so the idea that she's doing it for male attention is pretty funny really.

I loved the stuff about reverse engineering the protocol. Very neat stuff.

This is a great post with so many neat hacks along the way--when she started talking about modeling and 3D printing the enclosure I was thinking "Wow, this is a true renaissance hacker."

The world needs more blog posts like this.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by MiguelHudnandez »

georgeorwell wrote: post #103

Warning: this is not a politically correct viewpoint, but nevertheless it's my perspective. The actual best thing about this post being in first place on Hacker News is not that it's a woman posting but that she has a Y chromosome and most people don't realize it. It's like her recently-acquired vagina is a new laptop to be hacked. It's still objectification of women if you try to turn into one and then objectify you…

> It's still objectification of women if you try to turn into one and then objectify yourself.

I don't buy in to the equivalence of building a better vibrator and objectifying women.

Whether she is trans* or not has nothing to do with this writeup. Why belittle her accomplishments? This is an innovative idea, and it will get people thinking about different ways to please themselves or their lovers.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by daeken »

lobotryas wrote: post #4

Fun article and an excellent hack! Any takers to found a startup in order to dive in and disrupt the sex toy industry with some cutting edge innovation? Imagine the millions you'd rake in if you re-invent sex. I'm looking forward to at least one ero-toy applicant in the next round of YC apps.

> I'm looking forward to at least one ero-toy applicant in the next round of YC apps.

I nearly applied with one this year. I came up with a technique to "3d print" custom sex toys a while back and have been iterating on the idea slowly, but it's not far enough along to throw my weight behind it as a real business.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

#114

Post by derleth »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #101
derleth wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Men getting antagonistic when their sexist behavior is called out That isn't all that happens, as you can see from the comments like "Oh, yes, men have it so hard " whenever a situation that favors females over males is brought up.

I was praying that one was sarcasm...

> I was praying that one was sarcasm...

It's part of a culture, one men perpetrate just as much as women if not more, that says "women are the only victims of sexism." If that statement doesn't seem immediately idiotic to you, the best I can offer right now is this:

http://www.alternet.org/story/156194/what_about_the_men_why_...

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by djcapelis »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #111
djcapelis wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My girlfriend wrote this post for the same reason she wrote the the other posts on her blog: to share her work and talk about neat hacks. Your statement that she's doing it for attention is incredibly sexist. Also she's queer, so the idea that she's doing it for male attention is pretty funny really.

I loved the stuff about reverse engineering the protocol. Very neat stuff. This is a great post with so many neat hacks along the way--when she started talking about modeling and 3D printing the enclosure I was thinking "Wow, this is a true renaissance hacker." The world needs more blog posts like this.

Yeah, she's impressive. You might enjoy some of the other posts on her blog too, my favorite is the duct tape RFID post, but mostly because she made that one for me.

(But also it's a neat hack, she powers the microcontroller via the I/O pins and just attaches the vcc and ground pins to a capacitor.)

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by ricardobeat »

robbles wrote: post #109

Really cool project, and looks like it was executed really well in many ways. However, I couldn't help being reminded of this comic: http://xkcd.com/196/ I feel like there's a lot of social factors that would make using an invention like this a little awkward. Maybe that's just me?

Why, did you read the entire post? It doesn't require any tinkering to work, and the interface is totally natural.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by derleth »

zerostar07 wrote: post #60
mistercow wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the majority explicitly thinks like that. Probably, if you asked them why they upvoted, their post hoc justification would be about how not-sexist they were. They'd be proud of it. But the post hoc justifications people come up with when they actually think about their motivations are very often not the original reasons for their actions, especially when the original reasons are not admirable. Don't get…

My deleted comment was "I don't think the majority thinks like that" , which i deleted because i don't have data to back it up. But after reading your reply, what the hell dude/gal? Can't it be that people upvoted the article because sexy subject+technology is double win? Can't it be because i am actually jealous i haven't hacked my penis yet? And i'm not even a Feminist. Now your theory about guilt and nerdgirl fant…

> And i'm not even a Feminist.

Careful with this: A number of people think that 'feminist' means 'in favor of gender equality', so if you distance yourself from any kind of feminism you're painted as being against gender equality. Also, in their minds no form of feminism is possibly counter to gender equality, even the feminists who think less of women who want to be housewives.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by wiredfool »

ghjm wrote: post #49

This is a really cool hack, but my problem is that I don't understand the sex part. What's better about waving your hands around to control the motor speed, vs. using a dial? This is not out of prurient interest. I just can't understand the engineering without understanding the use case. Maybe you have to be female to get this?

I'd think something like EEG or heart rate feedback would be better than sonar. Higher degree of difficulty, but much more evil.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by [deleted] »

georgeorwell wrote: post #103

Warning: this is not a politically correct viewpoint, but nevertheless it's my perspective. The actual best thing about this post being in first place on Hacker News is not that it's a woman posting but that she has a Y chromosome and most people don't realize it. It's like her recently-acquired vagina is a new laptop to be hacked. It's still objectification of women if you try to turn into one and then objectify you…

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