Another Case of Getting It Really, Really Wrong

I am a web developer. And there are a lot of good things about working in the tech field. But if there is one thing that isn't good, it is the "brogrammer" mindset that is still all too prevalent in the industry. A complete unwillingness (or worse, inability) to acknowledge that:

1. Women work in this field as well, and
2. Maybe guys shouldn't act like misogynistic assholes

I have talked about this before here, how men in the industry have to confront this alongside women. That we can't just sit back and shake our heads in silent disapproval. Because not only is it just wrong, abhorrent behavior...it makes every guy in the industry look bad.

Real men in the tech field hate these guys.

With that in mind, here is another dumbass "bros in the industry keeping it real" idea that is just ridiculous and sad.

A "Hackers and Hookers" themed Halloween party, organized by a startup co-working collective called "Hacker Hideout," tech people might be smart commentary on the state of gender and business today. If it weren't real. But, yes, it is real: for $10, you can drink unlimited beer with a bunch of losers whose companies won't even get purchased by Yahoo!, wondering Where are all the girls??, and generally lacking social mores.

Guess which gender the hookers are!

You would think by 2013 we'd be getting a handle on this kind of bullshit, but no. Just like the CEO of a healthcare startup thinks women wearing high heels have no brains, we still have a long way to go.

Ideally, these assholes would just shut the fuck up and stop doing this crap. But the problem with that is it won't change the regressive mindset that forms these idiotic ideas. Better they come to the fore and receive the public mocking they richly deserve. Perhaps then the idea that maybe, just maybe, we should treat everyone the same will sink into their brains.