Sexism and PHP • Hacker News Board

Re: Sexism and PHP

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Post by liljimmytables » Sat, Feb 23, 2013, 3:05 PM UTC

antihero wrote: post #35

liljimmytables wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just throwing out my own intuition here, but I think that firstly, there's an implication that you have a penis. You don't? Odd one out. Secondly, if a woman were to say that verbally to a man, there would be a flirtatious connotation, which would lead women to feel uncomfortable wearing a shirt saying the same and hanging around with a load of strangers.

Thing is, on the internet, penis is kind of a different concept, and not limited to men.

i would wear a t-shirt that said that :)

Re: Sexism and PHP

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Post by captoffendo » Sat, Feb 23, 2013, 5:19 PM UTC

The t-shirt is neither sexist or offensive, nor particularly funny. People, please spend your moral outrage on real issues. Honestly, PHP as a language is way more offensive than the shirt is.

Re: Sexism and PHP

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Post by largesse » Sat, Feb 23, 2013, 5:47 PM UTC

onemorepassword wrote: post #37

largesse wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Juvenile, yes. But offensive toward women? How?

It's not offensive toward women in itself, but in the context, being distributed at a developer conference to promote a magazine, it's sexist. It marks the territory as a boys club. It basically says "for brogrammers only".

That strikes me as a very patronizing attitude toward women.

Re: Sexism and PHP

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Post by saurik » Sat, Feb 23, 2013, 6:05 PM UTC

Maxious wrote: post #16

PeterisP wrote: post #11

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I didn't get any relation at all between this pic and the article until reading some comments.. Ok, some juveniles might interpret it in a funny way, but I mean, in the same manner half of real surnames can be made into crude puns.

@viraptor: PHPness sounds like P-H-penis. "Enhance your penis" is a common spam email subject line.

(This is, in fact, the shirt I came across; I didn't get this at all. Combined with that tweet being from October, is why I said it must have been an old shirt.)

Re: Sexism and PHP

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Post by vilda » Wed, Feb 27, 2013, 12:53 PM UTC

It's fair so say that those girls are authors of that t-shirt. It was they idea. And they are not dumb at all - they are editors of Webandphp.