Maybe you should write less. Your style is unnecessarily offensive, not witty or entertaining. You might find that your attitude is the problem, and not the industry itself. If you’re so cynical as to compare writing code for a living to human trafficking and sex work, which are very real problems that you have carelessly and insensitively used as a metaphor, maybe you should find a new gig.
And this isn’t about political correctness, either. I don’t care about them. But if you were going to use this metaphor and this style, you better do it well, and you failed. This post isn’t edgy or interesting or novel.
Actually, this was well done. Maybe you're not a whore in the industry, but the similarties are striking and there's at least a little truth to the metaphor
The author is blaming an entire industry for his or her crappy choices while comparing it to being raped. This isn’t a reasonable criticism and utterly lacks accountability for their own decision making. It’s the attitude of a child who loses a game because they made a bad move. This obvious attempt at shock value is neither shocking nor nuanced and is devoid of self reflection.
Addendum: as for the advice on attitude to work, there is some validity to reflect on it. As Woody Allen once remarked (more or less), whore's are those who took an amateur sport and made it professional. Maybe the writer is better suited to the joys of an amateur's innocent approach to development, and avoiding tainting their enjoyment of discovery with professional obligations. Of course, he has to first decide if he can afford to do so. If he can, his attitude is just fine.
Then again advising a whore they should improve their attitude to working as a whore is an interesting piece of advice that I would more have expected from a pimp or team-lead/manager.
Bah. Don't get to hung up on everything. Gets boring after a while that everything is too sacred to use as a meta4.
Didn't expect it to be a Russian author's classic. Just an unedited musing.
As such, the post was fine. In fact it was better than that. It had the courage to tackle an edgy subject, self-imposed a constraint to adhere to shaping the development of the story to the structure of another book, used swearing as a device to convey an unrestrained passionate expression of a perception of reality, in doing so conveying an authenticity of feeling.
The evil that exists around pimping, whoring, slavery isn't trivialised by referencing it. It remains what it is. Always an un-condonable desperate tragedy.
This story's referencing it is a structural device. Much as using a phrase such as "yesterday, work was hell" doesn't trivialise religions who believe in hell. Neither does the phrase "Traffic on the highway this morning was murder". Or "Dealing with HR is pure torture". Or "My ex-wife and I are in a war over who gets to keep the car."
Should the author self-censure themselves because a person who who was pimped in real life -- or someone who lost a family member to it -- might read this article and be reminded of that situation? Of course not. It's not pleasant, but discomfort is unavoidaable. The relase from pain is our expose to it and changing our reaction to it. We don't erase words from the dictionary because they may hurt feelings. I don't think your words were intended to cause the author joy. Should your comment be erased? Of course not.
As for getting better at writing? Sure. We all can. How does one get better? By writing. Publicly. Such as in posts. To get reaction to the choice of subject, perspective, structure, language used, point made. And take them on board to continue to improve.
Following an ill-conceived regimen of self-censorship will not change the the fact that real human slavery will continue.
Continue writing.
And @Hater, continue advising how it could become better rather than shutting things done.
The author literally refers to women as bitches three times in this piece. I’m not going to bother criticizing it because the author didn’t bother putting any real effort info it. It was a poor, low-effort attempt at being edgy.
To seriously compare the suffering of sex workers to writing code for a living simply demonstrates how out of touch the author is. Truly I can only assume the author is completely ignorant of the realities of forced sexual labor and rape, because that’s what we’re talking about here. For anyone to be defending this choice is odd. No amount of backwards-looking justification can change the fact that the author is trivializing rape and prostitution by comparing it to sitting behind a keyboard. The lack of perspective is telling.
Try to think of it as an iterative development. That you consider the piece to have 3 bugs in it. Bring it up. Put it on the author's backlog.
Life's is hell. And there's always more. The fact that he hasn't been raped (I'm guessing?) and references it doesn't mean he is trivialising it - just means that he can't understand what a person would feel like going through it. Then again, maybe someone who has been raped but is maybe talent-less has no concept of the angst of having capability and creativity but unable to make the world better because they're being employed making the world a worse place. Each person feels differently.
Nobody is defending rape. Or exploitation. In any form. Think that was the point.
What's being defended is the act of creation -- flawed as it is (and flawed as it was demonstrated) And encouraging it. In the sincere hopes it gets better. There's really only two states: Creators or Consumers. God knows we already have enough Consumers. So it's worth encouraging Creators, no? And it doesn't preclude giving Constructive feedback.
By the way -- do you have experience in the sex trade? If you do, what did you hate about it? How did you get hooked into it? Was it the money? Was it via a friend? Did you feel duped? Did you feel cornered and unable to exit? Did you feel those emotions *while* performing sexual work -- or at other times, while stirring a cup of coffee, late at night, alone and *not* working, but still wondering how you got yourself into this position of exploitation and what to do about it? If so, then you might see a correlation, and hopefully commiserate -- just a tiny bit -- with the author's wondering how he ended up in his position. Exploitation is exploitation. Misery is misery. Despair is despair. It just happens differently and at different times for different folks.
On the other hand, If you have no experience in the trade, then you both have the about the same experience, and everybody should be getting back to the issue at hand. Creating/Writing. Better.
The word 'whore' has several meanings. Many people are not aware that using it to represent anything but actual prostitution doesn't force young girls into a life of misery and enslavement. It's true, though! Words are just words, and are not magically connected to the things we indignantly wish they meant.
I found it interesting tbh. and It was spot on comparison for his situation. Especially when he had nothing to stay for in the company and the fake great project turned out just to be a way to recruit great talents and preserve old ones.
Maybe you should write less. Your style is unnecessarily offensive, not witty or entertaining. You might find that your attitude is the problem, and not the industry itself. If you’re so cynical as to compare writing code for a living to human trafficking and sex work, which are very real problems that you have carelessly and insensitively used as a metaphor, maybe you should find a new gig.
And this isn’t about political correctness, either. I don’t care about them. But if you were going to use this metaphor and this style, you better do it well, and you failed. This post isn’t edgy or interesting or novel.
Actually, this was well done. Maybe you're not a whore in the industry, but the similarties are striking and there's at least a little truth to the metaphor
The author is blaming an entire industry for his or her crappy choices while comparing it to being raped. This isn’t a reasonable criticism and utterly lacks accountability for their own decision making. It’s the attitude of a child who loses a game because they made a bad move. This obvious attempt at shock value is neither shocking nor nuanced and is devoid of self reflection.
Addendum: as for the advice on attitude to work, there is some validity to reflect on it. As Woody Allen once remarked (more or less), whore's are those who took an amateur sport and made it professional. Maybe the writer is better suited to the joys of an amateur's innocent approach to development, and avoiding tainting their enjoyment of discovery with professional obligations. Of course, he has to first decide if he can afford to do so. If he can, his attitude is just fine.
Then again advising a whore they should improve their attitude to working as a whore is an interesting piece of advice that I would more have expected from a pimp or team-lead/manager.
Bah. Don't get to hung up on everything. Gets boring after a while that everything is too sacred to use as a meta4.
Didn't expect it to be a Russian author's classic. Just an unedited musing.
As such, the post was fine. In fact it was better than that. It had the courage to tackle an edgy subject, self-imposed a constraint to adhere to shaping the development of the story to the structure of another book, used swearing as a device to convey an unrestrained passionate expression of a perception of reality, in doing so conveying an authenticity of feeling.
The evil that exists around pimping, whoring, slavery isn't trivialised by referencing it. It remains what it is. Always an un-condonable desperate tragedy.
This story's referencing it is a structural device. Much as using a phrase such as "yesterday, work was hell" doesn't trivialise religions who believe in hell. Neither does the phrase "Traffic on the highway this morning was murder". Or "Dealing with HR is pure torture". Or "My ex-wife and I are in a war over who gets to keep the car."
Should the author self-censure themselves because a person who who was pimped in real life -- or someone who lost a family member to it -- might read this article and be reminded of that situation? Of course not. It's not pleasant, but discomfort is unavoidaable. The relase from pain is our expose to it and changing our reaction to it. We don't erase words from the dictionary because they may hurt feelings. I don't think your words were intended to cause the author joy. Should your comment be erased? Of course not.
As for getting better at writing? Sure. We all can. How does one get better? By writing. Publicly. Such as in posts. To get reaction to the choice of subject, perspective, structure, language used, point made. And take them on board to continue to improve.
Following an ill-conceived regimen of self-censorship will not change the the fact that real human slavery will continue.
Continue writing.
And @Hater, continue advising how it could become better rather than shutting things done.
The author literally refers to women as bitches three times in this piece. I’m not going to bother criticizing it because the author didn’t bother putting any real effort info it. It was a poor, low-effort attempt at being edgy.
To seriously compare the suffering of sex workers to writing code for a living simply demonstrates how out of touch the author is. Truly I can only assume the author is completely ignorant of the realities of forced sexual labor and rape, because that’s what we’re talking about here. For anyone to be defending this choice is odd. No amount of backwards-looking justification can change the fact that the author is trivializing rape and prostitution by comparing it to sitting behind a keyboard. The lack of perspective is telling.
Sigh. There's a lot of censoring to do before worrying about this piece...
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/09/06/160672019/who-you-calling-a-b
Try to think of it as an iterative development. That you consider the piece to have 3 bugs in it. Bring it up. Put it on the author's backlog.
Life's is hell. And there's always more. The fact that he hasn't been raped (I'm guessing?) and references it doesn't mean he is trivialising it - just means that he can't understand what a person would feel like going through it. Then again, maybe someone who has been raped but is maybe talent-less has no concept of the angst of having capability and creativity but unable to make the world better because they're being employed making the world a worse place. Each person feels differently.
Nobody is defending rape. Or exploitation. In any form. Think that was the point.
What's being defended is the act of creation -- flawed as it is (and flawed as it was demonstrated) And encouraging it. In the sincere hopes it gets better. There's really only two states: Creators or Consumers. God knows we already have enough Consumers. So it's worth encouraging Creators, no? And it doesn't preclude giving Constructive feedback.
By the way -- do you have experience in the sex trade? If you do, what did you hate about it? How did you get hooked into it? Was it the money? Was it via a friend? Did you feel duped? Did you feel cornered and unable to exit? Did you feel those emotions *while* performing sexual work -- or at other times, while stirring a cup of coffee, late at night, alone and *not* working, but still wondering how you got yourself into this position of exploitation and what to do about it? If so, then you might see a correlation, and hopefully commiserate -- just a tiny bit -- with the author's wondering how he ended up in his position. Exploitation is exploitation. Misery is misery. Despair is despair. It just happens differently and at different times for different folks.
On the other hand, If you have no experience in the trade, then you both have the about the same experience, and everybody should be getting back to the issue at hand. Creating/Writing. Better.
And making the world less exploitative.
Now *that* was funny ;-)
The word 'whore' has several meanings. Many people are not aware that using it to represent anything but actual prostitution doesn't force young girls into a life of misery and enslavement. It's true, though! Words are just words, and are not magically connected to the things we indignantly wish they meant.
I found it interesting tbh. and It was spot on comparison for his situation. Especially when he had nothing to stay for in the company and the fake great project turned out just to be a way to recruit great talents and preserve old ones.
+1
This is how you feel everyday when working for any of the defense contractors here in the US. If you are young, stay away.
I agree with everything written in the article. Well written. I wanted to read more since i had a similar experience, minus the fake project.
This is brilliant, funny, sad and true. Good read 9/10
Aren't we all to some extend. Some are to social media comment systems.
But none the less a whore who can nail together a decent metaphorical story with raw statements.