Sexism in Tech

Monday
4 Jun 2012
@ 10:20
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(via Twitter / ASUS: The rear looks pretty nice)

Asus tweets the following:

“The rear looks pretty nice. So does the new Transformer AIO. ‪#Computex2012‬ pic.twitter.com/ajafmuDk”

UPDATE: Asus deleted the tweet, but there are many screenshots of it. Here’s one.

Sunday
3 Jun 2012
@ 13:47
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“ MEN invented the Internet. And not just any men. Men with pocket protectors. Men who idolized Mr. Spock and cried when Steve Jobs died. Nerds. Geeks. Give them their due. Without men, we would never know what our friends were doing five minutes ago.

NYT: “MEN invented the internet” - Boing Boing

The NYT is now participating on misogynist revisionist history.

Sunday
13 May 2012
@ 16:25
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Nokia's Cringe-Inducing "Dev City" Video

programmersbeingdicks:

For a moment there, it looked like it was all over. No major incidents in a full month by our watch, and a string of apologies. We were all set to accept that sexism in tech was over, rename this blog PROGRAMMERS BEING SORRY and devote it entirely to congratulating male devs for growing the hell up.

So we’re indebted to Nokia—or a rogue agent associated therewith—for being so incredibly out-of-touch that they not only made a comedy rap video about how cool it is to be a developer, they turned the dial from Merely Embarrassingly Lame to What the Actual Fuck is Wrong With Us and filled it with footage of sexy women gyrating in server rooms and fawning over a dude sitting at his laptop.

What a relief! On with the show.

(via ashedryden)

Sunday
13 May 2012
@ 15:12
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“ Sqoot’s original note for the API Jam included a section on “perks” for the event, including this gem: “Women: Need another beer? Let one of our friendly (female) event staff get that for you. How Casual Sexism Put Sqoot in the Hotseat

Sunday
13 May 2012
@ 15:10
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“ A crowd of about 100 was packed into the conference room, overflowing into the aisles. Van Horn stood stiffly in the center of the room, clipboard in hand, boyishly hip in a grey blazer, expensive-looking jeans, and eyeglasses with flashy white stems. He began with a story about chasing down a job at Digg, the once popular bookmarking site, shortly after he graduated from the University of Arizona. He said he’d won over Digg’s elusive cofounders by sending them “bikini shots” from a “nudie calendar” he’d put together with photographs of fellow students posing in their swimsuits. “Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem

Sunday
13 May 2012
@ 14:17
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“ So here I am at Dell’s huge and very professional summit with founder Michael Dell, top people from Microsoft and Intel, impressive power points, expensive commercials, matching polyester ties and all that jazz, and then the – by Dell chosen – moderator starts to rejoice the lack of women in the room. “The IT business is one of the last frontiers that manages to keep women out. The quota of women to men in your business is sound and healthy” he says. “What are you actually doing here?” he adds to the few women who are actually present in the room. Dresscode: Blue tie and male