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Juvenile, yes. But offensive toward women? How?
by largesse 14y ago
Juvenile, yes. But offensive toward women? How?
- liljimmytables 14y agoI'm just throwing out my own intuition here, but I think that firstly, there's an implication that you have a penis. You don't? Odd one out. Secondly, if a woman were to say that verbally to a man, there would be a flirtatious connotation, which would lead women to feel uncomfortable wearing a shirt saying the same and hanging around with a load of strangers.
- largesse 14y agoI saw a woman wear a "Byte Me" t-shirt at the last conference I went to. Who do I talk to about fixing this? :)
- liljimmytables 14y agoi'm pretty sure that choosing to wear a t-shirt that suits your own personality is totally okay, and indeed kind of the point
- kirualex 14y agoI'm pretty sure women are not forced to wear those shirts in these conventions, but then again I might be wrong.
- liljimmytables 14y agoThat's as may be, by making their event t-shirt, they're saying "our demographic is people who would wear this." If you're not in that demographic you feel isolated.
- antihero 14y agoThing is, on the internet, penis is kind of a different concept, and not limited to men.
- liljimmytables 14y agoi would wear a t-shirt that said that :)
- onemorepassword 14y agoIt's not offensive toward women in itself, but in the context, being distributed at a developer conference to promote a magazine, it's sexist. It marks the territory as a boys club. It basically says "for brogrammers only".
- largesse 14y agoThat strikes me as a very patronizing attitude toward women.