The article is out for vengeance. "Titstare" isn't even a real app, but satire. The article uses this joke as an example of technology's "man problem."
Men: you cannot make sex jokes in public, especially at tech conferences. Any sexual innuendo will be labeled misogynistic. Don't forget about the two guys who got fired after joking about "forking" and "dongles."
Male co-workers can make crude jokes between one another and laugh about it. But say anything sexual and if a woman hears it, you will be labeled sexist, misogynistic, and reported to HR or shamed on Twitter.
And women wonder why they feel excluded from their male peers...
There's nothing about that article that was "out for vengeance". It was a pretty even-handed look at what is a very present issue in tech culture today.
By the way, while I realize those admonishments were tongue-in-cheek, they were, in fact, largely correct. The problem isn't so much that we shouldn't be telling sex jokes in a public, professional forum. It's that you seem to think you have a right to do so free of the consequences of violating social norms. When women and minorities speak about privilege—that's part of what they're pointing at.
There's nothing about that article that was "out for vengeance". It was a pretty even-handed look at what is a very present issue in tech culture today.
It started off with the title - "Man Problem". That is, the men are the source of the problem.
It asserts that the problem is not a lack of women, or something that women are doing, or that women are not stepping up and seizing what they want. No, instead, the problem is that the 'evil' men in tech are being mean and not letting the poor defenseless girls play with their evil male tech toys.
Well, so what? Like many fields, tech is competitive and people play hardball. If women can't take the heat, maybe they can go into a field where they are the majority - nursing, cosmetology, fashion - and give the men a hard time.
Men: you cannot make sex jokes in public, especially at tech conferences. Any sexual innuendo will be labeled misogynistic. Don't forget about the two guys who got fired after joking about "forking" and "dongles."
Male co-workers can make crude jokes between one another and laugh about it. But say anything sexual and if a woman hears it, you will be labeled sexist, misogynistic, and reported to HR or shamed on Twitter.
And women wonder why they feel excluded from their male peers...