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Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

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Re: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

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Post by mietek »

belluchan wrote: post #32
lhnz wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brogrammer is just a stereotype, brah. Not everybody that wears shades, doesn't take life seriously and speaks with an accent is misogynistic, crass, less mature than you and difficult to depend on. That's not really fair. To a bro the word just means 'friend' - somebody that's dependable, fun to hang out with and that won't over complicate things. Those descriptions seem more in line with the tool.

I have found out in life that women can also be dependable, fun to hang out with, and not "complicate things." Using "bro" is offensive because it excludes others by their gender. It's an awful exclusionary term and you shouldn't think it funny or ironic. You're not taking this serious. I'm guessing because you haven't any idea of how soul crushing it can be to see this kind of behavior in the workplace when you're a…

How have you been dealing with the existence of man pages thus far?

Re: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

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Post by chrisrhoden »

lhnz wrote: post #35
belluchan wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have found out in life that women can also be dependable, fun to hang out with, and not "complicate things." Using "bro" is offensive because it excludes others by their gender. It's an awful exclusionary term and you shouldn't think it funny or ironic. You're not taking this serious. I'm guessing because you haven't any idea of how soul crushing it can be to see this kind of behavior in the workplace when you're a…

Are you winding me up? Was man also misogynistic? Besides: curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org

> Was man also misogynistic?

man is short for manual. What is bro short for?

Re: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

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Post by FreezerburnV »

belluchan wrote: post #32
lhnz wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brogrammer is just a stereotype, brah. Not everybody that wears shades, doesn't take life seriously and speaks with an accent is misogynistic, crass, less mature than you and difficult to depend on. That's not really fair. To a bro the word just means 'friend' - somebody that's dependable, fun to hang out with and that won't over complicate things. Those descriptions seem more in line with the tool.

I have found out in life that women can also be dependable, fun to hang out with, and not "complicate things." Using "bro" is offensive because it excludes others by their gender. It's an awful exclusionary term and you shouldn't think it funny or ironic. You're not taking this serious. I'm guessing because you haven't any idea of how soul crushing it can be to see this kind of behavior in the workplace when you're a…

To be fair, some people actually use "bro" as an neutral term. I call my wife "bro" all the time, she called one of her (female) students bro, etc.

And I'm not trying to downplay any bad behavior by people you've had to interact/work with. Pretty much anything can be used in a negative way in a specific context, and people can be huge jerks. I'm merely trying to say that words which you think are offensive to one gender, can be used as a completely neutral term without any subtext other than friendliness. It's really a shame that this word has become so negative to you.

Re: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

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Post by mtrimpe »

lhnz wrote: post #35
belluchan wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have found out in life that women can also be dependable, fun to hang out with, and not "complicate things." Using "bro" is offensive because it excludes others by their gender. It's an awful exclusionary term and you shouldn't think it funny or ironic. You're not taking this serious. I'm guessing because you haven't any idea of how soul crushing it can be to see this kind of behavior in the workplace when you're a…

Are you winding me up? Was man also misogynistic? Besides: curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org

You're shitting us right? Manpages referred to manuals, not men.

But given that I'm obviously swimming against the tide here at HN I'll just cave .....

Word, brah! Like, totally right on! We should be making like 'sispages' next with like only explanations and shit. Get it? For like the sissy-grammers! Awesome dude. You da bomb!

Re: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

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Post by maguirre »

People, calm the f@#k down. This tool appears to be very useful and its intent is to make your life easier. If you feel the name bothers you so much that you can't use it then that's your prerogative just like it was the developer's prerogative to name it whatever he/she wanted

Re: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

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Post by endymi0n »

lhnz wrote: post #35
belluchan wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have found out in life that women can also be dependable, fun to hang out with, and not "complicate things." Using "bro" is offensive because it excludes others by their gender. It's an awful exclusionary term and you shouldn't think it funny or ironic. You're not taking this serious. I'm guessing because you haven't any idea of how soul crushing it can be to see this kind of behavior in the workplace when you're a…

Are you winding me up? Was man also misogynistic? Besides: curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org

it's actually the first thing a feminist programmer adds to her .bashrc:

alias woman="man"

Re: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

#48

Post by csmattryder »

enjo wrote: post #8

This is great. I'm really just looking for examples most of the time I'm looking through a man page anyways. As for the "bro"trevorsy that is brewing in these comments. Lighten up for crying out loud.

Yep, it's great to get a quick refresher of how a rarely-used program works.

For me, it's 'curl', can never remember the right syntax!

But yeah, you're right, what's in a name? I'll leave the politics to others, I've got software to write.

Re: Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

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Post by dictum »

chrisrhoden wrote: post #42
lhnz wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you winding me up? Was man also misogynistic? Besides: curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org

> Was man also misogynistic? man is short for manual. What is bro short for?

Brother.

(I couldn't resist.)

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