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I have strictly no idea why OP is using women nor in the title or illustrations

smt88 6y ago
It's a jokey reference to the movie Mean Girls (a comedy).
1_player 6y ago
Is mentioning women off limits nowadays? Come on. It might as well been "Kindness for Mean Boys" and the meaning and implications of it would not change a single iota, except losing the movie reference and light tone the author wanted to go for.
- Fr33maan 6y ago
  I dont have this reference. Kindness for mean boys would have certainly be less controversial but still off topic. Never said that mentioning women is off limits. I don t get why you ask this as an amswer to my statement. Thanks for the movie reference
ORioN63 6y ago
He's drawing a comparison between Haskell kinds and concepts shown in the (once) popular teenage movie "Mean Girls".
- asutekku 6y ago
  It’s still pretty popular, it does have kind of a cult-movie status.
- jpxw 6y ago
  s/He’s/She’s/
anticristi 6y ago
It reinforces the stereotype that only women are mean. I would dislike a title reinforcing stereotypes about me: "Detox for Alcoholic East Europeans: Haskell type enforcement".
- cdash 6y ago
  No such stereotype says only women are mean.
  - anticristi 6y ago
    C'mon. It's a well-known "fact" (please read that with sarcasm) that women gossip more and are more mean: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2017.1411789 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2017.14...
    - bitcharmer 6y ago
      This is absolutely not true where I come from. I don't think you should consider your personal beliefs and biases to be universal to the whole planet.
    - FabHK 6y ago
      Why the downvotes? OP put "fact" in scare quotes and provided a link to a scientific paper entirely refuting both mentioned "facts". It thus seems obvious that OP doesn't subscribe to those stereotypes, but furthermore subversively makes fun of those that do. Downvoting without checking the link... Is this Twitter here or HN?
      - hadron_bumper 6y ago
        Not sure about this particular instance, but this user's comments in this thread show quite aggressive, preconceived and completely unnecessary stance. To people like that everything is sexist/racist/-phobic. Since HN is generally above that, comments trying to derail the actual discussion and lower the level of discourse are not welcome.
- docdeek 6y ago
  I've never heard a stereotype that suggests only women are mean. Perhaps it's a cultural trope?
asutekku 6y ago
It’s just a reference to the Mean Girls movie. Works well with haskell’s kind → mean.
- Fr33maan 6y ago
  ok I do understand why I didn t understood

It's a jokey reference to the movie Mean Girls (a comedy).

Is mentioning women off limits nowadays? Come on. It might as well been "Kindness for Mean Boys" and the meaning and implications of it would not change a single iota, except losing the movie reference and light tone the author wanted to go for.

Fr33maan 6y ago
I dont have this reference. Kindness for mean boys would have certainly be less controversial but still off topic. Never said that mentioning women is off limits. I don t get why you ask this as an amswer to my statement. Thanks for the movie reference

ORioN63 6y ago

He's drawing a comparison between Haskell kinds and concepts shown in the (once) popular teenage movie "Mean Girls".

asutekku 6y ago
It’s still pretty popular, it does have kind of a cult-movie status.
jpxw 6y ago
s/He’s/She’s/

anticristi 6y ago

It reinforces the stereotype that only women are mean. I would dislike a title reinforcing stereotypes about me: "Detox for Alcoholic East Europeans: Haskell type enforcement".

cdash 6y ago
No such stereotype says only women are mean.
- anticristi 6y ago
  C'mon. It's a well-known "fact" (please read that with sarcasm) that women gossip more and are more mean: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2017.1411789 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2017.14...
  - bitcharmer 6y ago
    This is absolutely not true where I come from. I don't think you should consider your personal beliefs and biases to be universal to the whole planet.
  - FabHK 6y ago
    Why the downvotes? OP put "fact" in scare quotes and provided a link to a scientific paper entirely refuting both mentioned "facts". It thus seems obvious that OP doesn't subscribe to those stereotypes, but furthermore subversively makes fun of those that do. Downvoting without checking the link... Is this Twitter here or HN?
    - hadron_bumper 6y ago
      Not sure about this particular instance, but this user's comments in this thread show quite aggressive, preconceived and completely unnecessary stance. To people like that everything is sexist/racist/-phobic. Since HN is generally above that, comments trying to derail the actual discussion and lower the level of discourse are not welcome.
docdeek 6y ago
I've never heard a stereotype that suggests only women are mean. Perhaps it's a cultural trope?

asutekku 6y ago

It’s just a reference to the Mean Girls movie. Works well with haskell’s kind → mean.

Fr33maan 6y ago
ok I do understand why I didn t understood