[largesse]

Juvenile, yes. But offensive toward women? How?

[liljimmytables]

I'm just throwing out my own intuition here, but I think that firstly, there's an implication that you have a penis. You don't? Odd one out.

Secondly, if a woman were to say that verbally to a man, there would be a flirtatious connotation, which would lead women to feel uncomfortable wearing a shirt saying the same and hanging around with a load of strangers.

[antihero]

Thing is, on the internet, penis is kind of a different concept, and not limited to men.

[liljimmytables]

i would wear a t-shirt that said that :)

[kirualex]

I'm pretty sure women are not forced to wear those shirts in these conventions, but then again I might be wrong.

[liljimmytables]

That's as may be, by making their event t-shirt, they're saying "our demographic is people who would wear this." If you're not in that demographic you feel isolated.

[largesse]

I saw a woman wear a "Byte Me" t-shirt at the last conference I went to. Who do I talk to about fixing this? :)

[liljimmytables]

i'm pretty sure that choosing to wear a t-shirt that suits your own personality is totally okay, and indeed kind of the point

[onemorepassword]

It's not offensive toward women in itself, but in the context, being distributed at a developer conference to promote a magazine, it's sexist.

It marks the territory as a boys club. It basically says "for brogrammers only".

[largesse]

That strikes me as a very patronizing attitude toward women.