Remove closet sexism #20
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I think, that term was part of the joke. It's an established phrase. I do not think of it as being sexist.
It's a shame all this gender rage lately tries to neutralize everything to one big pile of grey sameness.
Really now, it's just a joke!
Real programmers is also an established phrase https://xkcd.com/378/. Honestly, while I don't care much for the PC culture, I think this fits better. Not all real men are real programmers.
@minecrawler: "Real Xs never Y" is a saying of its own; it doesn't need to be "men" in order to make sense. There's also nothing in the joke that plays on male bravado, so it arguably makes more sense as "programmers". It seems a little insensitive honestly to be complaining about political correctness gone too far over someone wanting to eliminate a clear "programmers = men" implication by changing a single word. It's bikeshedding even having a conversation about it IMO.
This whole piece is a satire. If there is sexism in it, then I'd read that as part of the satire.
I read this little bit of "sexism" as making fun of the male bravado stereotype.
I don't think any pull request that tries to change sentences or any such should be accepted.
If there's a typo or Markdown syntax then yeah.
Real men never merge these kinds of pull requests.
I agree that this should be merged - 'real programmers' makes far more sense in this context than 'real men', despite the fact that the latter is indeed an existing, albeit unnecessarily gender-charged expression.
Real programmers ftw. Some of the comments here need pull requests of their own. Real men often aren't.
Thanks for your suggestion, @seutje. Although many commenters here have made good points about this suggested update, it does not fit the intention of this project.
See #19 for details. Please limit all contributions to grammar fixes, punctuation errors, typos, and other non-semantic changes to the style or writing in any way.
Same joke, less sexist.