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GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
Lest you think this is yet another CoC, the guidelines assure you that they are not a CoC.
Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
The GNU Kind Communication Guidelines, initial version, have been published in https://gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html. On behalf of the GNU Project, I ask all GNU contributors to make their best efforts to follow these guidelines in GNU Project discuaaions[sic].
[ . . . ] The difference between kind communication guidelines and a code of conduct is a matter of the basic overall approach.
A code of conduct states rules, with punishments for anyone that violates them.
[...] The idea of the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines is to start guiding people towards kinder communication at a point well before one would even think of saying, "You are breaking the rules." The way we do this, rather than ordering people to be kind or else, is try to help people learn to make their communication more kind.
[ . . . . ] I disagree with making "diversity" a goal. If the developers in a specific free software project do not include demographic D, I don't think that the lack of them as a problem that requires action
The best way to avoid conflict and encourage diversity is to force everyone to voluntarily think alike.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 29 2018, @06:55PM (13 children)
Extend that perspective, just a little, if you will. I've commented before about women who WANT to be housewives. I've specifically commented about Obama's speech, in which he stated "we don't WANT you to stay at home" or words to that effect. A woman who does not work and pay taxes is of little value to the government. And, those women who actually want to be stay-at-home moms resent a lot of the feminism, along with the economics that force them out of the home.
I don't think anyone has ever attempted a study, to find out how many women would stay at home, if they were able. I suspect that would be over 25%, and possibly greater than 50%. I doubt that it would be as high as 2/3, or 66%.
Just something to think about.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Monday October 29 2018, @08:24PM (7 children)
The point of feminism is to give women the *agency* to decide *for themselves* what they want. Anything else is just bullshit.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @10:32PM (2 children)
In fact, women have more agency than men.
Women are in complete control of whether they reproduce.
Women get to vote without being subject to the draft.
The majority of tax monies are paid by men, while the majority of welfare benefits are received by women.
The family courts have been shown to be biased towards rewarding women and punishing men.
It's time for Masculinism; it's time for men to hold mirrors between their legs and say to themselves "You know what? I didn't want this scar around my cock; I didn't want a chunk of my sexual organ cut off and thrown into the trash just because some women claim it looks nicer this way."
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @12:29AM (1 child)
It's their body. Do you think you have a right to decide what happens to someone else's body? Where do we draw the line, at your body?
You can't blame women for this. Men made those rules, and men have tried to keep women out of the military for a long time. Can't have it both ways.
Not all taxes go for "welfare benefits". The majority of
welfare benefitsgovernment handouts are received by corporations and billionaires. Of the benefits that trickle down the needy, children are the largest recipients. If their dads had stuck around (for example, after interceding in your first point), well, read the next one.Women are not rewarded in family court for the bad behavior of men. The men are just treated appropriately for their actions (accountability suck, doesn't it?). And if men acted like real men, rather than how they act in order to end up in family court, then you couldn't complain about your third point.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:50PM
Sure, if a woman wants to abort or have the baby, that's entirely her business. The man should be able to abort his financial responsibilities.
Also, I see you skipped over the genital mutilation to which so many men are subjected; you can throw a party after stripping a boy of half his shaft tissue, much of which is specialized for protection AND pleasure, but if you so much as prick a girl's labia with a pin in order to draw a ritual drop of blood, then you've committed GENITAL MUTILATION according to local, national, and international law.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @10:52PM
In fact, women have more agency than men.
Women are in complete control of whether they reproduce.
Women get to vote without being subject to the draft.
The majority of tax monies are paid by men, while the majority of welfare benefits are received by women.
The family courts have been shown to be biased towards rewarding women and punishing men.
It's time for Masculinism; it's time for men to hold mirrors between their legs and say to themselves "You know what? I didn't want this scar around my cock; I didn't want a chunk of my sexual organ cut off and thrown into the trash just because some women claim it looks nicer this way."
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @11:07PM
In fact, women have more agency than men.
Women are in complete control of whether they reproduce.
Women get to vote without being subject to the draft.
The majority of tax monies are paid by men, while the majority of welfare benefits are received by women.
The family courts have been shown to be biased towards rewarding women and punishing men.
It's time for Masculinism; it's time for men to hold mirrors between their legs and say to themselves "You know what? I didn't want this scar around my cock; I didn't want a chunk of my sexual organ cut off and thrown into the trash just because some women claim it looks nicer this way."
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:55PM
In fact, women have more agency than men.
Women are in complete control of whether they reproduce. (Men should be able to abort their financial obligations.)
Women get to vote without being subject to the draft.
The majority of tax monies are paid by men, while the majority of welfare benefits are received by women.
The family courts have been shown to be biased towards rewarding women and punishing men.
It's time for Masculinism; it's time for men to hold mirrors between their legs and say to themselves "You know what? I didn't want this scar around my cock; I didn't want a chunk of my sexual organ cut off and thrown into the trash just because some women claim it looks nicer this way." (It's perfectly OK to denigrate a male's natural anatomy, and even to throw a celebration for the stripping away of half of his penis's shaft tissue, much of which is specialized for pleasure, protection, and mechanical function; but, prick a girl's labia with a pin in order to draw a ritual drop of blood, and you've committed GENITAL MUTILATION according to local, national, and international law!)
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @09:43PM
In fact, women have more agency than men.
Women are in complete control of whether they reproduce. (Men should be able to abort their financial obligations.)
Women get to vote without being subject to the draft.
The majority of tax monies are paid by men, while the majority of welfare benefits are received by women.
The family courts have been shown to be biased towards rewarding women and punishing men.
It's time for Masculinism; it's time for men to hold mirrors between their legs and say to themselves "You know what? I didn't want this scar around my cock; I didn't want a chunk of my sexual organ cut off and thrown into the trash just because some women claim it looks nicer this way." (It's perfectly OK to denigrate a male's natural anatomy, and even to throw a celebration for the stripping away of half of his penis's shaft tissue, much of which is specialized for pleasure, protection, and mechanical function; but, prick a girl's labia with a pin in order to draw a ritual drop of blood, and you've committed GENITAL MUTILATION according to local, national, and international law!)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Marand on Monday October 29 2018, @10:04PM (4 children)
Somewhat related, I wonder how many men would choose the same if they were able. There are a lot of unfulfilling jobs out there, where you know you're working your ass off just to enrich someone else, and they only get filled because people need income to survive. I bet a lot of us, regardless of gender, would prefer to stay at home and work on personal projects while being available to enrich our children's lives.
(Score: 3, Touché) by crafoo on Monday October 29 2018, @10:23PM (3 children)
Shut up and pull the wagon. When you're done you get a quick burial in-place while we hitch up the new kid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @07:31AM (2 children)
Y'all are showing your age. Almost nobody in NA under 30 was taught to cook, sew, can, darn, revarnish, or even how to clean clothes, dishes, or cooking surfaces. In young families, NOBODY is the stay at home home-maker now. The skills aren't there, among other things. There's just degrees of "how much work can we find" and "how can we schedule sleep and watching the kid(s)".
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 30 2018, @02:49PM (1 child)
How to slice up a whole chicken. How to rebuild a car engine. Both electric arc and gas welding. Carpentry.
Gardening.
Lots of other things. When the Apocalypse comes, I'll do just fine
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 31 2018, @10:55AM
I missed out on the gas welding. No mig or tig for me. I did get fishing and hunting as well as the ability to do everything involved in building a house except taping and bedding drywall though (and that I'll be picking up this winter).
My rights don't end where your fear begins.