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A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy
An anonymous reader writes with the story of a Github user's joke repository that is causing some controversy. "There's no question that the tech world is an overwhelmingly male place. There's legit concern that tech is run-amok with 'brogrammers' that make women programmers feel unwelcome. On the other hand, people just want to laugh. It's at that intersection that programmer Randy Hunt, aka 'letsgetrandy' posted a 'project' earlier this week to software hosting site GitHub called 'DICSS.' The project, which is actual free and open source software, is surrounded by geeky jokes about the male anatomy. And it's gone nuts, so to speak, becoming the most trending project on Github, and the subject of a lot of chatter on Twitter. And, Hunt tells us, the folks at Github are scratching their heads wondering what they should do about it. Some people love DICSS ... and some people are, understandably, offended. The offended people point out that this is exactly the sort of thing that makes tech unwelcoming to women, and not just because of the original project, but because of some of the comments (posted as "commits") that might take the joke too far."
How many women studied computer science in the early 90's?
I was at University from 1985 - 1990. Most of my undergrad CompSci TAs were women.
Taking offense has become a powerful political tool.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
A little dirty humor "is controversial" in the United States and probably would be in, say, Iran. But there are cultures that consider talking about sex totally harmless. I know that's a foreign idea in a country where you can lose your job or, conceivably, end up in court or even prison for making a harmless joke at the wrong time or in front of the wrong person. Cultures that aren't so uptight are superior to ours.
Definitely true at some schools. My experience was there were a few here and there. But it was heavily male. As are hard sciences, math and engineering departments. Social sciences and languages were heavily female.
I see this sort of stuff all the time,
Been a C/C++ developer for 25yrs, in my experience this stuff is very rare in working code.
Normal workplaces are a lot better in my opinion.
I can only assume you have never worked in a male dominated blue collar job, such as a mechanics workshop, garbage depot, or a building site. I did that sort of work for 15yrs before moving to a white collar job. The first thing I noticed about working in an office was how polite most people are, the boss even says please and thank you. The second thing I noticed, the walls aren't covered with posters of semi naked women.
Thing is, TFA isn't about workplace behaviour, it's just some junk someone posted on the internet with the express purpose of becoming (in)famous for 15 minutes.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Why you stupid sonofabitch.
https://www.women.cs.cmu.edu/a...
You are welcome on my lawn.
The truly funny part is that women wanted absolutely nothing to do with computers until there was money to be made.
That's sexist. Generalizing the motives of 50% of the world's population, 3 billion people. Worse still the generalization is a negative one. No, women couldn't be interested in computing, they are only in it for the money.
This is exactly what women are complaining about. It's no bullshit, you just demonstrated it.
How many women studied computer science in the early 90's? I'll tell you because I did: Basically none.
Either your memory is faulty or you were quite unlucky: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/di...
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
There is no right to create a hostile working environment for women.
Someone's personal non-employer-owned git repo on the internet is not a working environment.
It's only a working environment if you pull the code into a professional software development project and then incrorporate the inappropriate comments into a codebase where both yourself and coworkers or employers have access to it as part of the working arrangement.