Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > (Well, I call it a "mild put-down". Ben may or may not agree that it is > mild.)
I agree that the put-down is mild, in that the person uttering it probably doesn't expect it to be more than a mild insult to the person they were addressing. That's quite orthogonal to the fact that invoking gender as an insult is strongly undermining the goal of making our community welcoming to all genders. That effect on third parties is completely unrelated to the intended magnitude of the insult. I'm glad we have common cause. Let's keep calling out harmful crap when we see it. -- \ “Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of | `\ ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort.” | _o__) —Douglas Adams, _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_, 1988 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
