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Heath Borders

@mhoye change the xkcd cartoon from govt agents beating someone with a wrench to an abusive husband beating someone with a wrench, and maybe these sheltered nerds will believe it.

xkcd.com/538/

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mhoye

@heathborders

There's a missing third panel to that called "what happens all the time", that says "I'm going to hit her with a wrench for no reason and then look through her computer because I can."

The guy opposite him is wearing a police officer's hat and says "That's fine."

merzbow and chill

@heathborders @mhoye

how many of these sheltered nerds see themselves as the ones wielding the wrench in that scenario though

(genuine question; the tech sphere is one of the worst enablers of modern misogyny, I'd be 0% surprised if it translated to higher rates of DV among tech workers)

Heath Borders

@emptyfortress @mhoye

> One of the worst enablers of modern misogyny

Can you expand on that?

In my reading, cops have the worst DV correlation

mhoye

@heathborders @emptyfortress If "enablers" means "providing free tech support for" I definitely believe this.

Theodore Painsworth

@heathborders @mhoye

If those sheltered nerds actually read xkcd regularly they likely wouldn't be defending the kind of shit they are though. Randall is the exact antithesis to the tech bro culture.

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