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It's hard to believe that anyone in this industry - after everything that's gone down in recent years - would be ignorant enough to create this.
There's a direct link in "Our Philosophy" to http://programming-motherfucker.com/ (which also seems terribly misguided) but I really hope - for Zed's sake - that he's not involved in this idiotic project.
I guess they're winning though, if they got on the front page of HN.
Please note, I am posting this with despair - it's little surprise that women are under-represented in our industry if this kind of thing can stand.
I know this is likely an unpopular opinion but here it goes: what the fuck does this have to do with under-representation in our industry? There's medical-themed porn, school-themed porn and I'm sure someone in Japan has made at least one hacking-themed porn movie until now. That doesn't stop women from becoming doctors, going to school or hacking. There are striptease-themed news, too, and that doesn't prevent women…
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I'd suggest reading my comment first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646303
Many apologies. I sat through a conversation last night, the gist of which was, 'Women are not exploited by the tech industry'. I didn't turn on my brain, and reacted. I'm sorry, Choult. Thanks for directing my attention to your comment.
This is why we can't have nice things... It's hard to believe that anyone in this industry - after everything that's gone down in recent years - would be ignorant enough to create this. There's a direct link in "Our Philosophy" to http://programming-motherfucker.com/ (which also seems terribly misguided) but I really hope - for Zed's sake - that he's not involved in this idiotic project. I guess they're winning thoug…
This is surely satire? I refuse to believe that they're actually doing this seriously.
Please note, I am posting this with despair - it's little surprise that women are under-represented in our industry if this kind of thing can stand.
100% agree. This is offensive and sexist. I'm a man and I'm offended, and can only imagine how women must find it.
Why are you offended? Do you really think this is a serious website? maybe the next Codecademy.
On a lighter note, its really funny how you think "women must find it" offensive, but not for a single second you even thought that same statement is really really sexist.
ps: About the website, on my scale between love it and hate it, its in the "who gives a f*?" category. Daytime television if full of this cheesy type of stuff.
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Many apologies. I sat through a conversation last night, the gist of which was, 'Women are not exploited by the tech industry'. I didn't turn on my brain, and reacted. I'm sorry, Choult. Thanks for directing my attention to your comment.
Hey, that's alright - right reaction, wrong target!
Please note, I am posting this with despair - it's little surprise that women are under-represented in our industry if this kind of thing can stand.
I know this is likely an unpopular opinion but here it goes: what the fuck does this have to do with under-representation in our industry? There's medical-themed porn, school-themed porn and I'm sure someone in Japan has made at least one hacking-themed porn movie until now. That doesn't stop women from becoming doctors, going to school or hacking. There are striptease-themed news, too, and that doesn't prevent women…
There's a fundamental difference between exploiting one aspect of women and bringing that exploitation where it doesn't belong or basing your entire attitude towards women on that one aspect.
This is just soft porn under a domain name that ends with "babes.com". Most of us are okay with the existence of such things (and that's an understatement), and somebody was bound to exploit this predominantly mail target audience.
It's just too bad it's now being associated with our industry when we really don't need that shit.
But please don't make this part of the narrative around the very real problem of sexism in our industry. This is just a red herring, and maybe just a troll.