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Re:Notes from UPenn's Forum on Brogramming and Sexism in Com... by pilgrim689 on Thursday March 22, 2012 @11:58PM (#3743594)
My point is that I think your "critical mass of women in tech" are offended by sexism, not brogramming. Brogramming isn't sexist in itself, as I tried to illustrate. Hiring based on the brogrammer meme is sexist discrimination, though.

I respect that they're offended, I just don't think you've targetted the source of offense precisely.

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Re:Notes from UPenn's Forum on Brogramming and Sexism in Com... by tessr on Friday March 23, 2012 @12:50AM (#3743756)
I'd guess that close to 100% of women in tech are offended by sexism. There is a group--almost certainly a subset--which is offended by brogramming. They have said so.

Now, you can try to go convince them otherwise, but I strongly recommend against it.

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