| "... specifically mentioning the sex of the servers, in a list of perks, was a shoddy move." I disagree. I don't see anything wrong with it for the same reason that there's nothing wrong with advertising that scantily clad women will be walking around at a comics convention. " It plays to traditional stereotypes of male programmers as lonely losers, and it puts women firmly in the role of subservient to men..." In your opinion... and you only have that opinion if you actively work to extrapolate that meaning from what was actually said. "It's lazy and stupid. It's not as if "treat people with respect"; "don't discriminate against people based on their age, sex, sexual preference, race, or ability"[1] are new concepts." The problem is that in reality, there are differences between men and women, races/cultures and people with differing levels of ability. That you can't accept those differences and are offended by anyone else that addresses them is where the problem comes in. That you think women are not being treated with respect here is a fault in your own understanding. There's simply nothing wrong with targeted advertising. "She talks about the general everyday grind of stuff that she has to put up with, just because she's a women, that her male colleagues don't." Right, but projecting those frustrations onto something completely harmless is still wrong. |