I don't think I know a single person that actually uses the word "nips" to denote female anatomy. I wonder if the NIPS renaming debate goes back to a misunderstanding, where women assume that men secretly use that word to talk about them, and men assume that other, bad men do?
Yes, I am grateful for the evidence, which I was unaware of! On a different level, I agree with you that the name should be changed if a majority of people thinks it should. Which was not the case (the question was not "does it disturb you" but "should it be changed").
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Often people act not on what they find problematic, but on what they think others may find problematic, even if almost nobody actually does.
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i agree; PC taken to the limit is problematic. but in this case, i see leaders in the AI space such as Dean and Goodenough voting for change, and I value their point of view. by and large, the computing community has not been welcoming to women (see
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understood. but remember also the gender distribution of those who attend the conference and were able to vote...this is a great example of the problem of the tyranny of the majority
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