We often get complaints around Weboob‘s name, and the various application names.
There’s no denying they’re childish. What they are not, however, is sexist.
There is “boob” in the main name, and “boob” is a friendly name referring to (mostly female) breasts. We would, for example, avoid using “tits” or “cunt”, because they are often demeaning1. Though it is a happy accident (our earlier ideas like “woob” and “webob” were taken), we certainly like playing with that.
The idea is the same with application names; it’s all about friendly jokes (like wetboobs the weather tool, which manages to be related to weather and boobs).
If you’re offended, just ask yourself “how is it sexist?”.
As it appears, Weboob is a formidable tool to detect people that are part of the “be offended first, think later” crowd. Interestingly, the crusaders2 are to date all male, and often assert that women can’t like jokes about breasts or sex in general3. How fucked up is that?
They will always make a scene4 on how they’re never going to use Weboob because of names. Guys, here’s the thing: we don’t need you and we certainly don’t want you. I for one am glad we created an Asshole Detector, albeit by accident.
- We however are mostly not native English speakers. Mistakes can happen. [↩]
- This is not an euphemism. They act like they are fighting for a good cause, but it’s only pretend. [↩]
- And who the hell are they to talk in place of others? That is actual sexism. [↩]
- So that it is abundantly clear, this is purely about making a scene; I do not care about their opinions or how many penises they may have. All our contributors do not and do not have to like the branding. [↩]
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And accusing your critics of being ‘assholes’ is pretty poor form. If I was hiring staff, I’d steer clear of any of you lot.
Community standards change over time. Open source developers usually like to keep users happy so perhaps the devs will think about this and make a few small changes to some package names. They joke about computer science is that there are only two hard problems: invalidating cache, and naming things. Usually the joke is to show how hard cache management is, this is a rare example of the other problem.
If you’re going that direction, get rid of “SystemDick” aka ‘systemd’ right the fuck now. Get rid of it and keep it the fuck off my system along with the rest of PedoPoettering’s bullshit. We don’t want the D and it needs to go the fuck away.
Stick to your guns or shut the fuck up, Debian community. You already proved you are full of shit and can’t code for jack shit when you made Pulseaudio a default. Prove your brains are just as broken as your moral standards.
Hey, Tim, moron – the point of Linux is CHOICE. Debian assholes are removing said choice and have been since SystemD. Fuck them, and fuck you in every way for supporting their bullshit false flag claims.
Asshole CLEARLY detected.
I wouldn’t write this today, because it’s so pointless.