Hacker News: eggheadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eggheadHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:27:55 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by egghead in "Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only"]]>Exclusion is a better word for what is going on than hostility. The name is based on the homonym between 'man' as short for 'manual' and 'man' as a synonym for 'male'.

Though a tool for manuals the author chose the namesake by the identification with males.

Do you see why this might make some people feel excluded, why if you want to make a tool to help people it's probably a good idea to not exclude people?

Are you saying the name is a good name? Or just defending the right to be exclusionary?

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