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If shampoo was introduced today, the product would be laughed out of the room: who would put some sham poo on their heads? Nevertheless, people are fine with this weird word once it's become traditional.

If "gimp" is an ableist slur, is "lisp" an ableis slur, too? And does that Unix manual-viewing command seem to assume masculine superiority? While at it, that Unik signal-sending command would definitely be banned in Boston for indiscriminate cruelty.

I mean, come on. Humans are able to differentiate between meanings of a word, and even possess a sense of humor, to a degree.

That said, I'm totally not a fan of naming projects in a playfully stupid, disgusting, or, worse, obscene way. Sadly, people get their kicks out of that more often than I would like. But I think that the hooliganish joy of doing so critically depends on the rest of us reacting to such a name in an inflamed way, like above. There's something to be said about feeding trolls as a self-defeating behavior.

I would rather celebrate the major release.




> And does that Unix manual-viewing command seem to assume masculine superiority?

I don't think Eunuchs have ever been considered superiorly masculine.


No, they are referring to the manual page command "man"


Is there some other manual-viewing command that you believe it has been confused with? Is it that you are not aware that a eunuch is still considered a man?


> That said, I'm totally not a fan of naming projects in a playfully stupid, disgusting, or, worse, obscene way.

Better call Google, Yahoo, Mozilla ... and let them know. A lack of humor and humility is destroying SV, the country, and the world.


Unix is a play on eunuchs, because it was jokingly referred to as an emasculated version of Multics. Linux is a play on top of that. Certainly we must cancel Linus Torvalds posthaste!


Thankfully the intersection of cancels others and understands li/unix naming is ~ a null set


Surely it's a play on multi -> uni




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