If you’re a feminist with an online presence, you know how hard it is to have a public conversation with your friends without some rando sea-lioning in to the middle of your discussion with his very important man-sights
I have good news for you: you (yes, you!) can start your own personal feminist backchannel! A backchannel is a alternate conversation happening outside of the “mainstream” discussion, often commenting on or related to the main discussion. Backchannels are incredibly useful to marginalized groups
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Anonymous2015-03-13 19:38
In another post she claims credit to solution of the pesky atime overhead problem. For that, we must thank her. But she seems determined that it is feminism that gave you the solution to the problem, not good engineering taste and understanding of needs of users (and users more often than not include other programmers). This seems quite far-fetched. As a Muslim I too can claim that this ``human-centric'' approach to software development (which is actually thinking about a problem without jumping to coding right away) is instead Islamic, as Allah (only) commands His subjects to love and respect each other: 30:21 And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that ye may dwell in tranquillity with them, and He has put love and mercy between your [hearts]: Verily in that are Signs for those who reflect. 42:23 That is (the Bounty) whereof Allah gives Glad Tidings to His Servants who believe and do righteous deeds. Say: "No reward do I ask of you for this except the love of those near of kin. " And if any one earns any good, We shall give him an increase of good in respect thereof: For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Ready to appreciate (service). etc etc many parts of Quran, as Muhammad himself (p.b.u.h.) teached.