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Re:The Bro Network Security Monitor by pervycreeper on Saturday May 10, 2014 @07:20PM (#7727154)
Last time that I can recall a project containing "bro" in its title was on here, it was derided for excluding women and discouraging them from entering the tech industry.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121717

Re:The Bro Network Security Monitor by eli on Saturday May 10, 2014 @07:30PM (#7727179)
I think you're right, and if so these are some pretty lazy people doing the flagging. This project clearly has nothing to do with any modern connotations for the word "bro."
Re:The Bro Network Security Monitor by X4 on Saturday May 10, 2014 @08:55PM (#7727330)
I helped employ women over men, when I saw that they were eager to learn. The reasons for that were simple, I believe that diversity helps to increase the efficiency of a team and that large monolithic,hierarchical,homogenic teams should be abandoned. Why are people so sensitive about some words? I thought I can't understand until I heard about the word "no-homo" last week. THAT was the most absurd word I've heard in my lifetime. As a kid I had zero problems kissing my best friend (on the cheek), regardless of sex and I'm straight. There's nothing wrong about it, but "normal is relative and time-variying".

When I was in the position to scan and choose between many hundreds of job applications and even on a mid-sized start-up, where only a few applications went in. No I am NOT a HR Person, absolutely not, but they asked me to do it, so I did that too.

EDIT: Not sure why this earned a downvote, but to your information there is no law forcing companies to let a % of women in for example (in the country I live).