One of the points that I make in my post is that it's not up to YOU (or even your girlfriend) to decide what offends ME (or any other woman in CS). If you take nothing else away, please understand that.
With regards to "brogramming," I personally don't find the idea all that offensive. But there's a critical mass of women in tech who do, and I think that it's my responsibility--and yours--to respect that.
My point is that I think your "critical mass of women in tech" are offended by sexism, not brogramming. Brogramming isn't sexist in itself, as I tried to illustrate. Hiring based on the brogrammer meme is sexist discrimination, though.
I respect that they're offended, I just don't think you've targetted the source of offense precisely.
I'd guess that close to 100% of women in tech are offended by sexism. There is a group--almost certainly a subset--which is offended by brogramming. They have said so.
Now, you can try to go convince them otherwise, but I strongly recommend against it.
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One of the points that I make in my post is that it's not up to YOU (or even your girlfriend) to decide what offends ME (or any other woman in CS). If you take nothing else away, please understand that.
With regards to "brogramming," I personally don't find the idea all that offensive. But there's a critical mass of women in tech who do, and I think that it's my responsibility--and yours--to respect that.
My point is that I think your "critical mass of women in tech" are offended by sexism, not brogramming. Brogramming isn't sexist in itself, as I tried to illustrate. Hiring based on the brogrammer meme is sexist discrimination, though.
I respect that they're offended, I just don't think you've targetted the source of offense precisely.
I'd guess that close to 100% of women in tech are offended by sexism. There is a group--almost certainly a subset--which is offended by brogramming. They have said so.
Now, you can try to go convince them otherwise, but I strongly recommend against it.
That's fine if you also realize don't (in general) have the right to not be offended.