Basically you're saying "Lighten up".

There is a problem of gender representation in tech. We need to do something about it.

Basically he's saying that definitions of sexism vary across cultures, and that where he lives (and where I live), this would not be considered sexist. "Two countries separated by a common language"

What I said is that where I live its not like this. Girls wouldn't make a fuss about this, and would probably make more sexual jokes then guys actually. So yes maybe in comparison you guys need to lighten up as a society or something.

Making/enjoying sexual jokes in the right context and finding other sexual jokes sexist are not mutually exclusive.

(article forwarded to well-dressed coder-girlfriend)

I can't take you seriously when you link to a white, male comedian telling people not to get offended.

You've posted your comment on a community forum that is heavily US-centric. You clearly like the culture, or you wouldn't be here. Perhaps you could then allow that "our" values are worthy of more consideration than your comment seems to suggest? Just a thought.

Yes. I find it extremely funny/awkward that you say police person instead of policeman/woman, flight attendant instead of steward/stewardess, horizontally challenged instead of fat, can't say fuck on TV (but it's ok to carry guns and kill millions of innocent Afghans and support Israel's invasion of Palestine), that you can't drink under 18/21 (I don't know which one) not even if your parents are around (and you call your country "the land of the free"), that you can't watch certain movies in the cinema but there are action/murder movies on TV all the time, that you say African American when you actually mean all black people, in general that you put so much emphasis on the form but so little on the actual content.

Btw, I would never say flight attendant/horizontally challenged/... instead of the alternative, simply because it's longer, and I'm lazy.

I live in the US. I think most of those things happen a lot less than you think. To take what I think is the most extreme example, in the ~35 years that I've been parsing speech successfully, I don't think I've ever heard someone refer to a fat person as "horizontally challenged."

Maybe this stuff just happens on TV?

One exception: not saying "fuck" on TV. That's accurate and fucking insane.

It's also insane the amount of gore and violence allowed on TV and in movies, but show a little skin and you get fined.

The reason Family Guy has so many fight scenes is to prove how stupid the FCC's regulations on violence are compared to nudity.

For a while (a few decades back), ads for airlines were really sexist and promoted their stewardesses as sex objects. So replacing "stewardess" with "flight attendant" is for airlines to distance themselves from an actual, offensive practice.

It is a common perception that Americans are prudish and easily offended. In the UK at least.