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Ubuntu switches search back to GoogleUbuntu switches search back to GooglePosted Apr 8, 2010 19:52 UTC (Thu) by Adi (guest, #52678)In reply to: Ubuntu switches search back to Google by wingo Parent article: Ubuntu switches search back to Google
Sexist, not sexist, it was good one.
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Ubuntu switches search back to Google Posted Apr 8, 2010 21:26 UTC (Thu) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]
Defending sexism on the grounds that it's more important whether the comment was funny is kinda, well, sexist.
Ubuntu switches search back to Google Posted Apr 9, 2010 21:26 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I suspect it was only funny if you happened to be male.
Actually, no, a particular kind of male. I'm male and I found it thoroughly winceworthy.
Ubuntu switches search back to Google Posted Apr 11, 2010 7:15 UTC (Sun) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]
Yes, also that. It's not like "woman are unreliable and the men at Canonical are totally like women (that was an insult, get it! like *women*, oh snap!)" is particularly original, or witty. I actually do see how its funny, but having reflected on why, it's not a part of myself that I'm proud of.
Ubuntu switches search back to Google Posted Apr 16, 2010 8:26 UTC (Fri) by branden (subscriber, #7029) [Link]
It failed to be funny not just because it's an old joke which he failed to dress up with new paint, but because he undercut his own material.
"These Ubuntu top-managers are as inconstant as women often are"
Oh, God forbid, we don't qualify the assertion with "often". The statement is completely nutless because now it's not even clear whether he's saying women are more inconstant than men. Why not just leave the word out? Afraid he might offend someone?
If you're going to enter the terrain of sterotyping, you've got to march forcefully and with conviction. And you'd damn well better be funny.
To do any less is just gay.
(Ubj'f zl vebal?)
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