[crazygringo]

I'm only responding to this because your comment is #1 on the page right now.

The factuality of your comment has nothing to do with it.

Calling her a "chick" is like calling Larry Page a "boy toy" -- the word is used largely in sexual situations ("picking up chicks"), and is incredibly unprofessional and demeaning in a professional context like the workplace, or Hacker News.

And talking about the Internal Tools team as "that shit" is equally unprofessional and demeaning to everyone who works on it.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

[mixmixmix]

"And talking about the Internal Tools team as "that shit" is equally unprofessional and demeaning to everyone who works on it."

Really? Did you go around and ask everyone who works there if they feel "it's unprofessional and demeaning"? Or is it just you who feels that way?

Please don't blow this out of proportion.

[weareconvo]

>Calling her a "chick" is like calling Larry Page a "boy toy" -- the word is used largely in sexual situations ("picking up chicks"), and is incredibly unprofessional and demeaning in a professional context like the workplace, or Hacker News.

Then why don't you just ask what I meant by "chick" rather than insisting I was being sexist?

> And talking about the Internal Tools team as "that shit" is equally unprofessional and demeaning to everyone who works on it.

More demeaning than the comment itself, in which I actively demean the team by pointing out that everyone else in the company laughs at them?