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posted by CoolHand on Monday October 29 2018, @02:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the be-excellent-to-each-other dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Monday October 29 2018, @08:24PM (7 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Monday October 29 2018, @08:24PM (#755333) Homepage Journal

    Extend that perspective, just a little, if you will. I've commented before about women who WANT to be housewives.

    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
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  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @10:32PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @10:32PM (#755387)

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @12:29AM (#755437)

      Women are in complete control of whether they reproduce.

      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?

      Women get to vote without being subject to the draft.

      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.

      The majority of tax monies are paid by men, while the majority of welfare benefits are received by women.

      Not all taxes go for "welfare benefits". The majority of welfare benefits government 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.

      The family courts have been shown to be biased towards rewarding women and punishing men.

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:50PM (#755677)

        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

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @10:52PM (#755401)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @11:07PM (#755409)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:55PM (#755680)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @09:43PM (#755811)

    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!)