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100% agree. This is offensive and sexist. I'm a man and I'm offended, and can only imagine how women must find it.

And porn degrades women right? 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 televisio…

you're what? 14?

seriously... it's time for all little boys to grow the fk up.

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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…

> "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?" I agree. Aren't woman underrepresented in most STEM jobs anyways? And overrepresented in other jobs like e.g. kindergarten teachers? Woman are just wired differently as men. And perhaps woman are also conditioned differently as men from a young age (girls get to play with doll…

"Of course sexism in tech is bad and we should try to reduce sexism wherever possible, but that's a different issue."

i nominate for Best Mansplaining.

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> "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?" I agree. Aren't woman underrepresented in most STEM jobs anyways? And overrepresented in other jobs like e.g. kindergarten teachers? Woman are just wired differently as men. And perhaps woman are also conditioned differently as men from a young age (girls get to play with doll…

"Of course sexism in tech is bad and we should try to reduce sexism wherever possible, but that's a different issue." i nominate for Best Mansplaining.

I never thought I'd live to see the day the word "mansplaining" is used on Hacker News unironically.

Re: Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way

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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…

> "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?" I agree. Aren't woman underrepresented in most STEM jobs anyways? And overrepresented in other jobs like e.g. kindergarten teachers? Woman are just wired differently as men. And perhaps woman are also conditioned differently as men from a young age (girls get to play with doll…

As a logical thinking human being, if you are constantly being told you should go be a teacher, nurse, etc and then you end up in a field where you are told you do not belong. Where every day you have to wonder if the guy smiling creepily at you is listening to you or staring at your chest during scrum. Where you wonder if you should report the guy who would not let go of your hand when you and your coworkers went for drinks after work or if that would make them fire you for being a disruptive influence. Or maybe you should just not socialize with your coworkers.

If you are an intelligent human being who could go do and learn whatever you wanted, which was why you went, fuck conformity, I'm going to program and did it, why would you stay in an environment where you feel unsafe, objectified, and unwanted?

And at the end of the day, if another human being tells you that your actions make them feel unsafe, objectified, and unwanted, why is your reaction to tell them to leave?

Have you considered that perhaps there are girls who do not like playing with dolls? Who wanted the legos and Knex, who their parents had to threaten to keep them from taking apart the television and wanted a soldering iron instead of Barbies. That the very girls who ignore the conditioning you mentioned who make it regardless of social pressures when they realize that you, their peers, will continue to think they do not belong and they will have to fight your mentality for the rest of their lives, that you would rather believe that they simply can't hack it so you can justify the job distribution, why should they have to endure the perpetual questioning, lewd comments, uncomfortable stares, and stress? Why as fellow human beings would you ask that of anyone?

Re: Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way

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> "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?" I agree. Aren't woman underrepresented in most STEM jobs anyways? And overrepresented in other jobs like e.g. kindergarten teachers? Woman are just wired differently as men. And perhaps woman are also conditioned differently as men from a young age (girls get to play with doll…

I don't know it's a matter of men and women being "wired differently" or not, what I'm implying is that seriously, this site, while tasteless and of questionable educational quality, is really no more sexist than your average TV commercial, shopping mall or bar. Not everything with boobs is sexist, ffs.

It's not, but should we also not protest those as well?

Do we not teach children wrong by showing we are displeased? That silence means their actions are acceptable. Perhaps not reward-worthy, but acceptable. Thus are you saying that the behaviors shown on TV, shopping malls, bars, that is how you want you, your friends, your children to be treated?

Re: Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way

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FYI: Its a Drupal7 site hosted on new jersey linode so they can't really be php haters - maybe self-haterz. Using TypeKit. Sophisticated enough to include a custom server header and a California specific Privacy Policy but a UK one (although it could be copied). Video by Wistia.

-- HEADERS --

Server The Codebabes server

-- Traceroute --

8 router3-fmt.linode.com (65.49.10.218) 14.891 ms 9.519 ms 14.410 ms

9 li679-236.members.linode.com (23.239.1.236) 10.002 ms 9.691 ms 9.229 ms

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Re: Codebabes.com | Learn Coding and Web Development the Fun Way

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The PHP Virgin QUIZ is full of wrong answers! 1. To run PHP code it needs to be processed by a web server. They say TRUE. The answer is FALSE. - php-cli is used a lot (composer/phpunit/etc...) 2. If you inspect the source of a web page, will you ever see the PHP code? They Say YES. The Answer is FALSE - I mean maybe if you enable phps (php source) in your web server, but in most usage never. 4.In the following code s…

So... almost every quiz is bugged and says correct answers are wrong.

And then there's

> Which of the following will increment a the variable 'x' by one? * x++ * x+1 * x+=1 * All of the above

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