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1
No one over the age of five should be calling them boobies.
2
Transpose that douchebro logic from misogyny to racism and I've seen tebaggin' cousins of mine say almost exactly the same thing on FB.

'Cause, you know, racism means "hating people who have different skin color" -- they're not racist themselves, they just don't like the way the blacks in this country do blah blah blah...

I can't remember -- can you cure stupid or not?
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@2 Here's this tweet from 2010 (how did this not get him fired?):
Pax Dickinson @paxdickinson

In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though.
1:31 PM - 14 Jul 2010
4
dude seems like a piece of shit.

Can we all agree that we don't use this term 'Mansplain' anymore? I had a grown adult use it as an excuse to dismiss 3 CDC studies because she didn't like the conclusions (and 2 of the 3 principal investigators were women).
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@4,

No, I like the term. I'm not going to throw it out just because some women misuse it. If it makes you feel better, I use it very sparingly, like truffle oil.
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@2 Here's this tweet from 2010 (how did this not get him fired?):
Pax Dickinson @paxdickinson

In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though.
1:31 PM - 14 Jul 2010
7
Seriously, his name is "Pax"?

The douchebro wave is everywhere these days, but it seems to be especially strong in tech, and even in tech it seems to be concentrated especially in tech journalism. I think it's time for a "NALT" for Silicon Valley, yeah?

Seriously, bros: STOP IT. Being an asshole does not make you look cool.

Oh, and going to the dictionary to defend your bullshit is lame. Words are not their etymologies, and words have more than one meaning. Violators like this guy should have their noses broken with a sharp application of a fifteen-pound copy of Webster's Third (I have one you can borrow, or, if you prefer, the eighteen-pound Second).
8
what a charmer.

there is a certain American male aspect during bonding that I call 'the race to the bottom.' you show off how awful you are, which displays your humbleness, how you're "no better" than anyone else. of course, this usually ends up being a sort of reverse "look how awesome I am" sort of thing.
9
There was a great NY Times article on the steps Harvard Business School took to promote gender equity. The before sounds like a lot of guys like this, but Harvard took real, tough action - rather than just paying the problem lip service. Could really change the business environment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/educat…
10
Every year we all check off that we read the employee handbook, and somewhere in there, at just about every workplace, there's a note about how to behave on social media. I bet Business Insider had been getting their ducks in a row for a while toward letting this guy go.

Also, I can't imagine a scenario where listening to a lecture from a CTO—especially the CTO of... a magazine?—would benefit anyone.
12
"It's not like we're actually physically assaulting them, we're just systematically telling them that they aren't equal to us and are good only as fuckholes!" You're a charmer, Pax.
13
What @1 said.

They're tits.

Unless you're discussing them with your doctor, then they're breasts.
14
Okay this guy is clearly a fucknut, but what were the sexist jokes made at techcrunch?
15
@4 I like the term mansplain, too. It is way to common an activity not to have a word for it.
17
From one of the older tweets:

"so he's a woman, but he still has Y chromosomes?"

Um . . . does he think sex reassignment involves genetic engineering?
18
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I guess the Titstare app could be considered somehwat misogynist from the angle of promoting the objectification of women... but I think that's pretty weak. Men often look at women they find attractive, that's just a fact and they're playing on that in a vulgar way.

The sad thing is that, aside from the inappropriate venue, they could have curbed all the sexist complaints by simultaneously "offering" a version for women (who, you know, often like to look at attractive men), and of course covering their bases for non-heterosexual users.

The simulated masturbation app isn't mysoginist or sexist (other than the fact that only men have penises, but that's a sexism perpetuated by biology), just highly inappropriate in that setting.
19

In information technology, it has always been one of the few professions with close to a 50/50 ratio, but startups and development, not as much, in fact, very skewed.
20
@19 your comment is false and nonsensical at the same time.
21
Pax was fired so it is a happy ending.
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@18 Um...no. It's pics of men staring at women's breasts. Objectifying women, and perhaps doing this without consent. Even in the presentation, they state that the ladies don't like it, and illustrate it with a woman slapping a man. But now you can look at men violating the ladies on an app without fear of real-time retribution. Ew.
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@18 Though, I agree with you about the masturbation presentation. I still say that that was just a way to make your presentation memorable in 60 seconds. Inappropriate, perhaps. Gross, sure. But not sexist or misogynistic.
24
Pax Dickinson does not sound like the name of a real person. He is in all ways a cartoon.
25
He'd be a lot more attractive if he could just shut the fuck up.
26
alright, misanthrope is here. now a benign post will explode to 80+ comments as he mansplains to us how stupid we all are.
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@22 My point was that it would be hard to call them sexist if they treated all sexes similarly (hetero men objectifying women, hetero women objectifying men, and so on), and their presentation (since the app itself is apparently a joke and doesn't exist?) would be just as misandrist as it was misogynist and then we could focus on its inappropriate content given the setting.
28
@Chris Jury: Good luck with that.

@keshmeshi: "Man-splaining" is a term used by women too dumb and/or ignorant to challenge a man's point based on its merits.

Truffle oil is a pretty good analogy given its ability to cover up shitty cooking.
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@28,

"Man-splaining" is an apt term to describe men who carefully explain to women how we should interpret our own experiences and how we should feel about them. That you disparage the term and the women who use it speaks volumes about you.

And nothing covers up shitty cooking, especially not truffle oil.
30
@18: "but I think that's pretty weak"

LORD MRA HATH DECREED IT UPON HIGH: NOT MISOGYNIST.

Fuck your opinion.
31
Man, seandr, sometimes you can cook up some good ones.
32
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33
Mansplain is a great term. When a guy mansplains his patronizing points are just too fucking stupid to challenge on their merits. There is no point in doing it.
34
@17 He also seems to think that men normally have more than one Y chromosome. One X, one Y.
35
@34,

Well, he does have more than one cell....

I just feel so tired by the continuing stream of thoughtlessness. Well, it's another 9/11, and hopes and prayers for the lost will distract me...

Peace
36
@6: It's a reference to Mel Gibson's infamous rants.
37
Wow. Just... wow. This is SHOCKING, right, or am I being a pussy-boy nancy?

Please wait...

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