It's a fun read. You know, I'm not normally one to jump on the "offended" bandwagon. In this case I felt compelled to speak up because the name makes it pretty much impossible to reference or recommend the project in a business setting. Wearing a t-shirt to work makes me feel like a true rebel; mentioning a project with components such as "boobsize" and "wetboobs" is going to simply be too weird for many people.

> It's funny, everytime Weboob is presented somewhere, and everytime there is a post about the latest version of Weboob, the first comment is a variation of "it's sexist/boobs are unprofessional/grow up", and very very little time is spent talking about the actual thing

Seems like a bad name then, no?

Don't click the link above. It may crash your browser.

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We often get complaints around Weboob‘s name, and the various application names.

There’s no denying they’re childish. What they are not, however, is sexist.

There is “boob” in the main name, and “boob” is a friendly name referring to (mostly female) breasts. We would, for example, avoid using “tits” or “cunt”, because they are often demeaning1. Though it is a happy accident (our earlier ideas like “woob” and “webob” were taken), we certainly like playing with that.

The idea is the same with application names; it’s all about friendly jokes (like wetboobs the weather tool, which manages to be related to weather and boobs).

If you’re offended, just ask yourself “how is it sexist?”.

As it appears, Weboob is a formidable tool to detect people that are part of the “be offended first, think later” crowd. Interestingly, the crusaders2 are to date all male, and often assert that women can’t like jokes about breasts or sex in general3. How fucked up is that?

They will always make a scene4 on how they’re never going to use Weboob because of names. Guys, here’s the thing: we don’t need you and we certainly don’t want you. I for one am glad we created an Asshole Detector, albeit by accident. We however are mostly not native English speakers. Mistakes can happen. [↩] This is not an euphemism. They act like they are fighting for a good cause, but it’s only pretend. [↩] And who the hell are they to talk in place of others? That is actual sexism. [↩] So that it is abundantly clear, this is purely about making a scene; I do not care about their opinions or how many penises they may have. All our contributors do not and do not have to like the branding. [↩]

Is that supposed to link me to http://no-hipsters-allowed.t28.net/ ?

Edit: it directs me properly in an incognito window.

Interesting — that link is either down, or it's set up to present several different troll responses depending on the http referrer.

When I click, I'm redirected to a simple image. When I request it in incognito mode, I'm redirected to a "crash safari" url.

If you have to write a blog post about how the sexism "crusaders" have it in for you, chances are you are the asshole.

I'm not offended by the name, I get the joke, I just think it's a stupid joke.

I clicked the link and got some "hipsters not allowed" page. Not exactly helping the point that it's not just childish.

> It's funny, everytime Weboob is presented somewhere, and everytime there is a post about the latest version of Weboob, the first comment is a variation of "it's sexist/boobs are unprofessional/grow up", and very very little time is spent talking about the actual thing, what it does and why its only goal is to become irrelevant. Sad thing.

That in itself is a very good reason why the naming scheme needs a long, hard rethink. It's distracting.

Put another way, I wouldn't blame everyone else if every time my hypothetical company "Natzie" was mentioned the conversation devolved into something unrelated to the reason it was mentioned. If you want to succeed, you need to make decisions based on the real world, not how the world should be (not that you can't push limits, but baby steps are often needed).

Warning, this link either goes to CrashSafari or http://no-hipsters-allowed.t28.net/ .