On Mon, Feb 17, 2003, Terry Reedy wrote:
Ok, I'll be uncool. To me, a pimp is a type of rapist. Hardly something to joke about. In much of America, asking a female employee to use 'pimp' to procure something might well be an invitation to file a sex-harassment lawsuit. To both me and my wife (who would be insulted if so asked), the name says 'this is a college frat/nerd prank product, not for serious business/professional use".
Yeah, I was wavering, but now I think I'm -1, too. In particular, I suspect that "pimp" would be far more likely to bother women. There don't seem to be many women on python-dev; perhaps we should ask on c.l.py. OTOH, I disagree with Terry about pimp == rapist, but that's a debate for another forum. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Register for PyCon now! http://www.python.org/pycon/reg.html