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Sexism in the PHP Community

4 pointsby tswicegoodabout 12 years ago

4 comments

marssaxmanabout 12 years ago
The typeface is blatantly offensive, but it took me a while to see what was supposed to be sexist about the shirt. You have to read it out loud to get it: the last two syllables of "PHP-ness" are supposed to be pronounced like the word "penis". So it's not just an ugly shirt, but an ugly shirt which associates an ugly language with ugly ripoff-marketing spam email.
BHershewitzabout 12 years ago
It took me a really long time to understand why that shirt (apart from simply being ugly) would be considered offensive to women. I think the author of this article should engage in some introspective self-criticism and try to pinpoint the psychological factors that cause her to get so upset at trivial externalities that dont completely synch with her worldview.
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Mzabout 12 years ago
I never quite know what to think of posts like this. They usually strike me as really missing the mark, which I hesitate to say in part because I know that "not pc language" (for lack of a better term) <i>can</i> be a serious issue. But I really think these kinds of posts don't help women. I suspect they probably hurt women in tech, but I am not quite sure how to express my reasons for feeling that way.
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dmschulmanabout 12 years ago
Were there other tee shirts on sale at the conference or was this the sole piece merch?