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Douglas Crockford (JSON, JSLint, JSMin, Javascript: The Good Parts) is a founding father of modern Javascript. He is a frequent speaker on the Javascript circuit and, until recently, was the scheduled as the keynote speaker for the Nodevember Conference. For reasons no one can explain, he was removed from the conference schedule to help foster inclusivity. No one (including Crockford) knows why he was banned. Internet commenters have speculated it may have been due to a talk titled "Monads and Gonads" or slut shaming the "promiscuous" web or a his use of the gender (and species) exclusive phrase "hanging out there like a pair of dog balls". Others believe it's because he's a curmudgeon (aka grumpy old white cis heterosexual man). One of the Nodevember organizers (not involved with the decision to ban Crockford) has stepped down.
This is not the first time Crockford has experienced censorship -- he previously ported Maniac Mansion to the NES.
(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Tuesday September 06 2016, @10:47PM
What is a "cis heterosexual man"? Never seen that phrase before.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:01PM
I can't quite remember, but it's something chemical that's different from a para- or meta- heterosexual male.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by Hawkwind on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:32PM
I think heterosexual is redundant. Assuming that, male sex at birth and identifies with the male gender (hence cis as opposed to trans). Now back to the chemistry lab.
(Score: 2) by Hawkwind on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:35PM
Sorry, just realized heterosexual is not redundant as a gay man would also be a cis male.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:45PM
cishet man = cis(gendered) heterosexual man
cisgendered = identifies as the gender that the person was assigned at birth
heterosexual = attracted to women
man = !!$(*(*$!**Y$*Y*LOST CARRIER
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(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday September 07 2016, @12:00AM
Wow, I even fucked up my definition by misrepresenting "heterosexual".
NoooOooo!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @12:14AM
On the second day, God invented men with penises that liked other men with penises (and women with vaginas that liked other women with vaginas).
On the third day, God invented men with vaginas that liked women with penises.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday September 07 2016, @12:53AM
The most common usage I find for the term seems to be to serve as an early warning indicator that I needn't keep talking to the user of said terms.
It generally means that the user is young, obnoxious, and intolerant.
As far as what the actual definition means? I think it's supposed to be a label for "someone who is a man and who also thinks he's a man, who wants to fuck women".
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @01:40AM
It means a normal male. Many non-normal people can't handle that they're part of a small minority within the total population so they use more complicated words to make their groups seem larger than they actually are. Somehow they believe not being normal is a bad thing so they try very hard to destroy or change the definition of normal.
If you're talking to some one who uses that phrase, you should probably work yourself out of the conversation. If you stay, you'll probably and accidentally make a few micro-aggressions against the speaker which will then start a shit ton of drama.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday September 07 2016, @08:26AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 3, Funny) by art guerrilla on Wednesday September 07 2016, @10:57AM
*this*
my personal theory is that we are so soaked in all the estrogen-mimics and other toxins we don't know shit about, that it is causing a lot of the 'intersex' type combinations which are essentially bad replicants of a binary system...
BUT, what kind of pisses me off, is NOT that people of WHATEVER gender description they want to assign themselves (whatever floats your boat), but that they represent something like .0000000000000001 % of the population, yet they APPEAR to be dominating libtard issues when we have MUCH BIGGER FISH TO FRY, like, um, i don't know, the destruction of the planet and cessation of all human life...
you know, minor shit compared to whether i can have my own bathroom and shit...
(as far as that goes, here is a solution to that bullshit: PANsexual bathrooms everywhere all the time, EVERYBODY use the same stinking bathrooms and get raped and shit... i know, i know, for the chickas in the studio audience, that will be a real comedown from their bathrooms which have couches, and lockers, and changing tables and shit; now all they have is a broken urinal, an empty towel dispenser, and some weird guy in the next stall tapping morse code with his feet...)
(Score: 1) by AssCork on Wednesday September 07 2016, @07:38PM
+1 for the Larry Craig [wikipedia.org] reference.
On a side-note; I knew a girl (coworker, pronouns her/her's/she) who had to pee so bad, she went into the men's room. Afterwards, she described the condition of said restroom as "the worst javascript I've seen all day".
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 07 2016, @01:39PM
I think that 'cis' is a pejorative reference to people who have a audacity to identify with the gender they were born with and not want to change their gender. And 'heterosexual' is the pejorative term for people who have an unnatural desire for the opposite gender. They often claim that they were born that way and it is not a conscious choice they made when confronted with the choice.
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