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0 pointsarjunnarayan14y ago0 comments

I stand by my point that your ire is misdirected.

Here's how I see it:

1. Bros be bro-ing, with alcohol and weights. (not sexist)

2. Bros decide to program, bringing with them their bro-baggage (not sexist).

3. This becomes a meme: brogramming (not sexist).

4. Douchebag recruiters capitalize on latest meme in sleazy fashion, advertising "naked women" (definitely sexist).

5. Some women (ok, more than just you) and all reasonable persons are (rightfully) outraged at that blatant display of sexism.

I still don't seen anything offensive about brogramming itself --- insofar as brogramming consists of bros who like to program. If assholes are going to make sexist remarks/be sexist, you are entirely justified in calling them out for those vile acts, and I will happily join you in doing so. But your blogpost reads like a witchhunt against bros for... being bros.

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wpietri14y ago

If this were a field where professionals roughly mirrored the population at large, I wouldn't have much of a problem with brogramming. But that's far from the truth. So I am pretty happy to take issue with anything that reinforces the notion that programming is for guys.

Also, I think you're a little hasty to suggest that bro-ing has absolutely nothing sexist about it. Consider, for example, Time's photoessay "A Brief History of Bro Culture":

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1997965,00.htm...

The subtitle? "Beer and babes, a timeline of bros gone wild". That sounds like objectifying women to me.

Or look at the urban dictionary entries on bro:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bro

There's quite a lot there about chicks, homophobia, women as targets, etc. And you see the same themes cropping up in other bro-related media.

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