The premises upon which you have concluded that the statement is not homophobia are:
() It is an insult targeted at the named groups.
() It is targeted at men.
() Not trying to bed women is an insult to men.
All three premises are dubious.
Insults are directed at the person to be insulted. In so far as it is an insult, it was almost certainly targeted at members of the audience sympathetic to transparency and privacy. Which is not to say that there probably weren't any nerds among the policy wonks at the Bi-Partisan Security Center where Hayden's remarks were delivered
It is really your second premise that begins to illuminate why the remarks are homophobic - the premise of the insult has been entangled with not gender in general [despite reading that way] but masculinity in particular.
Once entangled, we get to the intended essence of the insult - implying that someone is unsuccessful under the model of heterosexual masculinity. The essence of the insult is that it feminizes its intended targets. I think we both agree, he is saying that those who favor government transparency and the privacy of citizens aren't fully realized as men.
The premises upon which the insult is based are rather self-contradictory on their face when it comes to women - they contain the implication that it's ok for women to be soft. Deeper down of course, the model of "real men" contains a rubric for determining success which applies to all the ambitious regardless of gender.
I cannot prove that his remark is homophobic, but entanglement of insult with a lack of conformance to a purely heterosexual model of human relations and the connotation of heterosexual masculinity in particular certainly are meta-data consistent with homophobia.
It's quite obvious that he was referring to the societal stereotype that 'nerds' (of either sex) are socially inept and incapable of having anything other than an awkward conversation with the opposite sex (despite their desire for 'normal,' sexual relationships).
If you don't believe that stereotype exists, go watch _any_ episode of The Big Bang Theory.
Your parent is not disputing that; they're saying that the _reason_ that being 'incapable of having anything other than an awkward conversation' is negative is due to attitudes relating to masculinity.
You're talking about the symptom, they're talking about the cause.
Agreed - it is interesting that the phrasing in the article was deliberately gender agnostic. What is the relevance of political correctness in the context of a boorish and petty insult?
For now, maybe, but that's not much better. Stigmatization has to begin somewhere, alienating his audience from "hackers" who obviously aren't very human.
Nice site! The labels are a bit clumsy, though. Have you considered using alternative visualization, such as treemaps? I use plottit to navigate through reddit threads because it shows comments arranged by karma in a treemap.
In practice, anonymous accounts don't work and our generation will have a permanent record as data analysis gets better and cameras like Google Glass will become ubiquitous.
The idea is that you should think through your opinions so that you can sign under them proudly even 20 years afterwards. Don't run your mouth rashly or drunkedly, don't respond to provocations, etc. And if you're ashamed to sign under an opinion, then think twice - either change that opinion or dare to sign under it. I mean, you can't hide under anonymity 24/7, you have to say what you are and be what you say.
Is there something like ipython for Haskell? GHCI is fine but some subtleties are missing. Like typing a prefix and going through a subset of the command history. And also the numpy/scipy/matplotlib toolkit that come with the -pylab option would be great!
Maybe it is possible to write a haskell mode for ipython? I watched Fernando and one of the Julia guys hack up communication between ipython and a Julia interpreter in an afternoon. Depending on how ghci is implemented it might not be much harder.
He likes the application and has gone through a lot of beta testing with friends. The problem seemed to be that he was not willing to put more effort into pushing the project.
