A Perspective on D from game industry

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 20:20:37 UTC, Brad Roberts via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> You'll likely toss me into the same boat as the post you're 
> ranting about, but please, watch the misogynistic language here.

Unnecessarily offensive in the context, yes, but reasonable 
people can and do disagree on whether it's misogynistic. In a lot 
of places it's not even a gendered* insult**, despite it's 
meaning.

Most swearing refers to genitalia or a specific subset (or 
characteristic of that subset) of humanity, but that doesn't 
necessarily make them active words of current oppression that 
should be avoided.


*i.e. it's not targeted at women specifically and doesn't imply 
any negative message about women. YMMV by location and social 
group.

**it's barely an insult at all if you've got the right(?) Irish 
friends.