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Hack of The Sexes

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Re: Hack of The Sexes

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Post by whalesalad »

I think this is pretty cool. It's a creative spin on the state of gender inequality. God only knows how it will turn out ... but if everyone plays nice and there aren't too many alpha personalities, it would probably end up being a pretty cool experience.

Humility is key in something like this. I'd just plant a ref in the middle of the room and anyone who can't be humble in front of the opposite sex would get ejected instantly as though a giant claw came out of the sky and picked 'em up. Like a screaming toddler: zero-tolerance. You're gonna cry and whine again? Boom! There goes your night light, now go back to bed and cut it out.

I'd have a lot of fun in something like this. We're wired differently so there'd certainly be some unique solutions on both side of the chromosome.

Whenever I make a big $$$ bet with a good friend, I can never accept their cash. It feels bad. At the end of the day, as the winner, it doesn't really matter that I won. The pure fact that there was a contest between us and the friendly trash talking is all that matters. Hopefully this ends up being kind of like that. Friendly trash talking, hacking on fun projects, and like I said, no extreme faux-alpha personalities who can't deal with losing.

We all know there is no winner in man vs woman. To quote the Bahai faith:

  The world of humanity is possessed of two wings: 
  the male and the female. So long as these two wings 
  are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly. 
  Until womankind reaches the same degree as man, until 
  she enjoys the same arena of activity, extraordinary
  attainment for humanity will not be realized; humanity
  cannot wing its way to heights of real attainment. 
  When the two wings . . . become equivalent in strength,
  enjoying the same prerogatives, the flight of man will
  be exceedingly lofty and extraordinary.

Re: Hack of The Sexes

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Post by anextio »

> The gender battle has existed for as long as we have. An unending competition as to which sex is better. This is no different, we're just changing the rules and bringing in a few different twists with this contest.

Wow. No thank you.

This kind of thing might be fun and innocent if we were not already living in an industry rife with sexism, inequality, and bro-culture rudeness.

Re: Hack of The Sexes

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Post by akavi »

I'm going to refrain from passing judgment, since the link is so thin on details, but I'm seriously having a hard time thinking up ways that this could be anything but a terrible idea.

Any help?

Re: Hack of The Sexes

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Post by obviouslygreen »

I can see this being pretty fun for those involved, as those who aren't will almost certainly take it too seriously... but I have to say, the use of "pinning" instead of "pitting" in the headline gave me a very adolescent chuckle. Perhaps this is someone else's vernacular, because in mine, that usage -- correct or not -- is pretty amusing.

Re: Hack of The Sexes

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Post by rjknight »

I don't find the gender aspect quite as off-putting as I do the following things:

* No clear rules are stated - how many people can participate, how big can teams be, are there just two teams? What if more women participate than men, or vice versa?

* What will the judging criteria be? Who will be the judge(s)?

* What kind of 'hack' are we talking about? Straight-up coding competitions have been around for a while now and there are well-established principles of how to judge the winners, but this seems to be a competition based around the loosest possible interpretation of 'hack'.

* What prize, if any, will be awarded and to whom?

* If I want to compete, what do I need? Skills? Equipment?

Basically, it feels like the only idea they've got is the 'sexes' part, with no real details on what the 'battle' is all about. It's really impossible to evaluate whether it's a good idea with such little information.

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