The language bit is dual purpose. For one it's clearly tongue in cheek. Furthermore, it's a way to scare off people who would get set off from a little bit of language play. It's a way to make an online space free of people they don't want without actually putting up hard borders or moving it to a less public space. (Personally I think it's a wonderful strategy)

All the commenters here that are too set off to engage with the article are exactly what they were hoping for

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lucid-dev 7 hours ago | parent [-]

While I appreciate your perspective, I'll note that for a certain group of people that I know personally, this language is NOT tongue and cheek. Though I find myself to be neither a woman nor an artist, I know people who are both - and this language is becoming more and more common as people reach for a way to set themselves apart from a social precedent and past language that they feel is neither inclusive nor representative of their own ambitions or experience.

What's really interesting, is the boundary they are crossing given this "tech-artistry", which clearly HN is pretty far removed from. It's quite interesting for someone who's seen plenty of this before to observe the polarized response from a different slice of society.

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culi 7 hours ago | parent [-]

It depends which language you're talking about I guess. The "Arduina" bit is clearly a joke

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Levitz 6 hours ago | parent [-]

>The "Arduina" bit is clearly a joke

How familiar are you with subversion of gendered language in feminist spaces? Calling it an "Arduina board" would not be out of the ordinary at all.

Which, by the way, they would definitely know, and I very much doubt they are satirizing feminists.

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culi 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes I would say I am quite familiar with such spaces and have even read relevant theory.

The subversion of language is sometimes poetic, sometimes just "play".

Regardless, the fact that so much of this masc-biased website's energy is being sucked in on this little prickle is evidence that the strategy is quite effective

	▲	Levitz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>The subversion of language is sometimes poetic, sometimes just "play". ...And the vast majority of the time, activism. >Regardless, the fact that so much of this masc-biased website's energy is being sucked in on this little prickle is evidence that the strategy is quite effective In the same way that covering yourself in feces is effective to keep undesirables away, yes. It works. It keeps everybody away, though, and make people think less of you.