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How about some 0xC0FFEE?
Not for Mormons.
You win. How about 0x12345678 :)
Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really
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Re: Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really
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No, I just get upset when women are reduced to sex objects, particularly in a context where people are forced to endure it because they have to work for a living. I suppose you would also support putting up racial epithets in a corporate lobby and calling it "art"?
"women are reduced to sex objects" I feel like some kind of infernal being talking to me right now. How do big boobs reduce women (which women? how many of them? what's their names?) to sex objects? What's a sex object anyway? Are you supposed to deny the existence of big boobs to prevent it? What happens if truth leaks? This is exactly a set of questions that DOES NOT cross the mind of people who drop "women are red…
It is not far fetched given that "big boobs" is interpreted in a societal context which is dominated by male gaze. That is, big boobs is "artsy" and "funny" for a man, since he is the target audience of the joke. Someone at the other end of the joke might take offense. Especially if you experience similar events on a daily basis within your professional environment. Just because something could qualify as art, doesn't mean that you are not allowed to scrutinize it.
I suggest that you employ a bit of empathy instead of drawing assumptions about the persona of the other party.
Putting up twenty links to Wulff & Morgenthaler (epic comics) and using it as an educational/critical source without context only dilutes what you are trying to say, i.e. people should more relaxed.
That being said, being able to figure out how to spell anything sensible using 8 sixteen-digit letters is an accomplishment.
Re: Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really
#33To be fair, 0xDEADBEEF may be considered offensive to hindus.
I had a coworker once lament the use of 0xDEADBEEF because he was a vegetarian. I'm bothered by what lowest common non-offensive denominator we will eventually have to reach. Is 0xCAFEBABE not only offensive to women but is it also offensive to male Starbucks employees? I don't have the answers. I don't even think I know what the questions are. I just weep for society as a whole over stuff like this.
Use both 0xCAFED00D and 0xCAFEBABE at the same time might alleviate some of those concerns.
Re: Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really
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"women are reduced to sex objects" I feel like some kind of infernal being talking to me right now. How do big boobs reduce women (which women? how many of them? what's their names?) to sex objects? What's a sex object anyway? Are you supposed to deny the existence of big boobs to prevent it? What happens if truth leaks? This is exactly a set of questions that DOES NOT cross the mind of people who drop "women are red…
It is not far fetched given that "big boobs" is interpreted in a societal context which is dominated by male gaze. That is, big boobs is "artsy" and "funny" for a man, since he is the target audience of the joke. Someone at the other end of the joke might take offense. Especially if you experience similar events on a daily basis within your professional environment. Just because something could qualify as art, doesn'…
I fail to understand the step where the other end takes offense. It's almost like underpant gnomes:
1. Big boobs in code.
2. ?????
3. Offended people.
What's that stage?
Big boobs are a fact of everyday life. If for some reason their mention casts such strong emotions, perhaps there are deep problems in the workplace culture. Art lets you expose that. But art is not a source of those hypothetical problems, rather than reactions to it are merely indicators.
I don't say people should be more relaxed. People should get better; It usually involves them getting a little worse first. Force them to reflect. Force them to negotiate peace with their sexuality and their environment.