>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 unprofes

>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?