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I think this is the shirt the OP is talking about: https://twitter.com/webandphp/status/261241003204300801 https://twitter.com/webandphp/status/2612410032043008
by mobweb 14y ago
I think this is the shirt the OP is talking about: https://twitter.com/webandphp/status/261241003204300801 https://twitter.com/webandphp/status/261241003204300801
- mike_esspe 14y agoCan you explain? :)
- mobweb 14y agoI also didn't get it at first, but I am not a native English speaker. I think it's a play on the phrase "Enhance your penis" that is typical for spam emails trying to sell dubious medication. I understand that, but I fail to see how it's especially offensive women? I consider it primarily against good taste. ;)
- onli 14y agoIt is not offensive at all (i agree it is bad taste, though i didn't understand the joke). It is sexism if you understand sexism and genderism in its strictest sense: That there is no difference between man and woman - sex is a thing imposed by society - and mentioning things like the penis, the biological difference between man and woman, constructs that change, thus is sexism. Yeah, as crazy as it sounds.
- largesse 14y agoJuvenile, yes. But offensive toward women? How?
- liljimmytables 14y agoI'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.
- largesse 14y agoI 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 14y agoi'm pretty sure that choosing to wear a t-shirt that suits your own personality is totally okay, and indeed kind of the point
- kirualex 14y agoI'm pretty sure women are not forced to wear those shirts in these conventions, but then again I might be wrong.
- liljimmytables 14y agoThat'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.
- antihero 14y agoThing is, on the internet, penis is kind of a different concept, and not limited to men.
- liljimmytables 14y agoi would wear a t-shirt that said that :)
- onemorepassword 14y agoIt'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 14y agoThat strikes me as a very patronizing attitude toward women.
- PeterisP 14y agoI didn't get any relation at all between this pic and the article until reading some comments.. Ok, some juveniles might interpret it in a funny way, but I mean, in the same manner half of real surnames can be made into crude puns.
- viraptor 14y agoCould someone explain it, please? I don't know if I should read "PHPness" in a different way, or is there some context missing? I just don't get what's wrong with that text.
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- Maxious 14y ago@viraptor: PHPness sounds like P-H-penis. "Enhance your penis" is a common spam email subject line.
- saurik 14y ago(This is, in fact, the shirt I came across; I didn't get this at all. Combined with that tweet being from October, is why I said it must have been an old shirt.)
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- mokash 14y agoOK guys, no more penis jokes. Will offend women.