How do we shame this sort of sexism?

Posted by ev-dev-dev on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @01:02PM
from the jux.com dept.

https://jux.com/gallery/161986

It seems like the premise of this picture is either 1) work for us to be near this hot chick, or 2) isn't it shocking that a pretty girl would read about javascript.

Both of these are insulting to women and developers. How do we shame this company?

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Re:How do we shame this sort of sexism? by boopsie on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @01:07PM (#4444717)

I was all ready to upvote this in a passionate YEAH... and then I looked at the link. What's sexist about it? If anything, having a geek chick with a tech book makes it obvious that the company wants to hire women.

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Re:How do we shame this sort of sexism? by option_greek on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @01:13PM (#4444761)

That's the new reality these days. Put a good looking girl on the cover - they will accuse you of making women look like sex symbols. Put an all male picture and you are suddenly not very welcome to women in tech.

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Re:How do we shame this sort of sexism? by zwdr on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @01:15PM (#4444775)

I agree, what the actual fuck is supposed to be sexistic here? Can't we all live in peace? And _why_ would you post that on HN anyways? It has nothing to do with technology/startup-things. I dont really care about stuff like this, and if I did, I'm sure I wouldnt visit HN to inform myself about it. Seriously, please stop posting unrelated messages. I don't ask about programming languages in a feministic newsgroup either. This submission is just noise, nothing more.

Maybe I should build a script to filter HN... this is getting overboard.

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Re:How do we shame this sort of sexism? by tokenizer on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @01:11PM (#4444755)

Agreed. This isn't sexist at all. Bad OP, bad.

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