Axe ad offensive to programmers or well intentioned student project?

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2 points·frederickf··5 comments

I do find myself offended by that code. This looks much better IMO

if(you.understand(this)) { return get.a.girlfriend(); }

Also what is the point of having one more girlfriend? I have barely time for Fallout: New Vegas with my current :(

I think this is a well intentioned student project that is just easy to misinterpret. It seems to be related to Miami Ad School Europe.

I think the intent is to target programmers and suggest that men who use Axe body spray will be popular with girls, although I can see how it could also be interpreted to suggest that if you can understand pseudo code then you should stop programming so much and get a girl friend.

Having said that, it is clearly sexist by assuming that a person who understands pseudo code must be a man (or a lesbian I guess).

Thoughts?

I have a hard time thinking of a single single male IT in my surroundings. When you get older than 25 the above average salary and brains do wonders for successful dating.

Nothing offensive, but I would have appreciated using Solarized, Source code pro and writing actual compilable code. It shows attention to details, research and respect to the community that you advertise to.

Do you think this comic is offensive to Axe users or is it just a well intentioned art project?

http://jubilantmeandering.thecomicseries.com/comics/43

That's not offensive to programmers.

"Compiler? I don't even know her!"

... that's offensive to programmers.

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