Stop Brogramming

This is proof that all you need to get up the front page on HN is a title that matches the current zeitgeist.<p>The article itself is terrible, making mountains out of molehills. I'm someone who'd never even be confused as a brogrammer, but someone explain to me what's negative about this "Drinking beer, lifting weights, picking up women, and kicking out a new JSON parser before dinner. ". That actually sounds like a damn good day in my book.<p>On top of its ridiculous hand wringing, the article is meandering and bizarrely attaches network TV and Louis C.K. to its thesis.<p>Forget brogrammers, this is the kind of reactionary, overly-P.C buzzkill I'd really hate to work with.

Apology from Sqoot: <a href="http://blog.sqoot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.sqoot.com/</a><p>Seems they were trying to hard and it just backfired. The humor wasn't intended as a negative thing but it's good that they apologize to clear the air of uncertainty.

This is article is a bunch of unrelated nonsense

Or, as James Iry said on twitter a few days ago: Brogrammer is just short for B programmer

Girls and beer, oh how offensive, big deal

If you have a long running sitcom, what you're saying on a weekly basis provides a frame of reference for jokes. The audience knows what to expect.<p>If you're adding a joke to a simple advert, there's absolutely no way you can predict the way something subversive will be received .. especially when the object of the joke is an under-represented key part of the audience.<p>Very silly mistake.

"lifting weights" What is wrong with that?Must we all be scrawny?

This guy titles his blog post "Stop Brogramming" then spends the whole article defending brogramming and sexism.<p>Definitely not front page material.

What exactly is sexism? Behaving as sexes DO exist, and, for example, men can like the look of certain females? Well, sexes DO exist, and men do like the look of certain females. To state otherwise would be hypocrisy.<p>And it's not like liking women or wanting to go to a bar that has pretty waitresses (and vice versa for women) if somehow taking advantage of the other sex. No more than wanting to go to a concert is taking advantage of people with nice voices and musical skills.<p>So, are we disallowing sexual desire and/or lust? If not, we are just advocating hypocrisy. I.e think it, but don't say/act as if you think it.<p>Seems to my European mind that Americans will be puritans whatever their political inclinations are. If they are of the Bible inclination (Bible belt etc), they will be all serious, sex is evil, abolish sexy looks, etc.<p>If they are of the liberal inclination (democrats etc), they will be all serious, sex is insulting, sexual references show intolerance and or exploitation, we should hide sexuality when in polite/professional company, etc.<p>Once a puritan, always a puritan.

Yeah, stop acting like primates everyone!