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Sexism in Twitter Bootstrap: "One fine body..."

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1 pointchadwtaylor21 comments

This would be objectification if it were gendered, in either direction, but this isn't even doing that. There is a lot of sexism in this world. This is not sexism.

Someone else said it already, but it is just childish innuendo meant for a cheap laugh, and fairly tame at that.

How is this sexism ? There is nothing mentioning gender

Do we really need to spell out the gender when it is obviously a classic wolf whistle comment.

My wife says I have one fine body, although I think she's just saying that to make me feel better. She says it's a long way from 'one fine set of boobs,' or references to some obviously gendered body part.

Well yes because I have heard some comments close to this from a lot of female friends lately. And gays.

It is innuendo, but I don't see sexism.

Aaron Swartz: If you talk to any woman in the tech community, it won’t be long before they start telling you stories about disgusting, sexist things guys have said to them. It freaks them out; and rightly so. As a result, the only women you see in tech are those who are willing to put up with all the abuse.

Someone has an axe to grind.

I think this refers to the body of the modal box.. The word body has a lot of meanings. Maybe it should say 'One fine HTML body...'

I don't understand how this is sexist. If so, then against which sex? There is no reference to gender anywhere.

What sex is a modal?

or even a super modal?

This is yet another classic example of why sexism reeks in the field of a technology start-up.

How do you think women in this field feel when they look up modals in Twitter Bootstrap and come across "One fine body..."?

This is unacceptable. We need to be more welcoming to women in technology and remove sexist remarks like this.

This is not sexist. Females say this just as often as males.

You need a reality check: http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/25/technology/innovation/sexism...

If your looking for sexism you are going to find it.

Edit: I believe sexism exists, I just don't believe it exists in everything. But, if you are on a mission to look for it you will find it in just about anything.

Do you really think it doesn't exist?

Do a twitter search for "one fine body". You tell me if it's used only by males or if there's an equal distribution between males and females. You are a hyper-sensitive alarmist that only pollutes real sexist issues with your garbage.

Would you think Aaron Swartz is a hyper-sensitive alarmist too?

Your post was about a supposedly "sexist" comment in Bootstrap, not Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz is completely irrelevant. That comment in the Bootstrap code is not sexist, instead you are a hypersensitive alarmist. You are hurting whatever cause you are trying to advance. I suggest you drop this and take a deep look at yourself and figure out why you are behaving this way.

What does this bit of code have to do with women?

Are you honestly offended by that documentation, and if so how so?

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