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Re:Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot by paulhauggis on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @11:11AM (#3766623)
She has a huge problem with "that's what she said", but no problem with using the term “brogrammer culture”.

If she was a co-worker and used that term, I would go to HR because it offends me. Why? to make a point about the ridiculousness of our society. You get the least bit offended and instead of just ignoring it, you need to make the person go away/get fired.

It reminds me of Elementary school. When is this bullshit going to stop?

Re:Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot by wpietri on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @11:17AM (#3766659)
You realize that bro culture and brogramming are actual, existing things started by guys, yes?

And you also realize that she intentionally didn't go to HR about the problem?

And you realize that women have been oppressed in our culture by men for, oh, millennia?

Re:Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot by agateform on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @08:16PM (#3769015)
I agree that a job post for brogrammer might not seem welcoming towards woman.

>You realize that bro culture and brogramming are actual, existing things started by guys, yes?

Please tell us your definition of brogramming and brogrammer.

From watching the initial joke video on brogramers I understood that brogrammer is a prejudice term for male coder which likes to party, drink alcohol, flirting and is usually more interested in main stream culture. There is nothing wrong with any of those qualities but we still talk about brogrammers as bad people. Aren't we also sexist and prejudice?

What would you say about an equivalent sisgrammer term for woman?

Re:Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot by wpietri on Thursday March 29, 2012 @03:39AM (#3770157)
I would say that you seem to have a poor understanding of pop culture in the US. Bro culture is a prexisting thing. See, e.g.: http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action...