Re:Women in Tech: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.
by CamperBob2 on Thursday July 19, 2012 @02:03AM
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And I'm supposed to hire anyone with that much of a stick up their ass, regardless of gender?
Re:Women in Tech: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.
by einhverfr on Thursday July 19, 2012 @04:58AM
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Where do you draw the line though?
We often say in the Perl world that objects that are ported to Moose "grow antlers." Arguably this is at least as female-hostile statement since only male moose grow antlers and therefore it establishes a male-normal perspective.
It's pervasive in everything, even in the names of stuff. E.g. there's a recent programming language that calls its interpolated strings "G-Strings". That's the class name in the code. A method for finding out the length of the "G-String" was added, called "size", in addition to the existing one called "length". So...
The language designers who invented those names had a good old laugh at the pun in the mailing lists. But female programmers are often offended, and have a case for having that language (and related web framework) banned from their workplace, in favor of another.