<story><title>Call yourself a &apos;brogrammer&apos;? Then get the hell away from me.</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/call-yourself-brogrammer-then-get-hell.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DarkShikari</author><text>From Urban Dictionary:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;brogrammer, n.: A programmer who breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a frat-boy: popped collars, bad beer, and calling everybody &quot;bro&quot;. Despised by everyone, especially other programmers.&lt;p&gt;Ex: Oh my god, John is talking about football and chicks again. That guy is such a brogrammer.&lt;p&gt;See also: programmer, frat boy, bro, douchebag, developer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not a good stereotype to conjure up, even in some ironic-parody-hipster sense.&lt;p&gt;It isn&apos;t a joke, either; I&apos;ve definitely seen programmers where I&apos;ve worked who &lt;i&gt;really do&lt;/i&gt; act like that -- and they are like toxin for introverted programmers.  Most other programmers probably don&apos;t appreciate a &quot;bro&quot; constantly talking about his sexual conquests instead of interesting technical topics or hobbies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Most other programmers probably don&apos;t appreciate a &quot;bro&quot; constantly talking about his sexual conquests instead of interesting technical topics or hobbies.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Definitely. I can hardly imagine anything more off-putting. Alas, I have seen that kind of crude bragging in Hacker News comments every once in a while. The Hacker News readership skews young, so many of the participants here are still trying to establish long-term relationships. As someone who is approaching thirty years of marriage, I no longer have the preoccupation of finding the next girl--and I really never did, as I was looking for the ONE girl I could count on to be a good wife for a lifetime and a good mother for any children we happened to have. It has not escaped my notice that many Hacker News participants are still looking for ways to build a deep relationship with someone. I don&apos;t think bragging up one-night stands provides answers for the many readers here who have questions about that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Call yourself a &apos;brogrammer&apos;? Then get the hell away from me.</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/call-yourself-brogrammer-then-get-hell.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DarkShikari</author><text>From Urban Dictionary:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;brogrammer, n.: A programmer who breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a frat-boy: popped collars, bad beer, and calling everybody &quot;bro&quot;. Despised by everyone, especially other programmers.&lt;p&gt;Ex: Oh my god, John is talking about football and chicks again. That guy is such a brogrammer.&lt;p&gt;See also: programmer, frat boy, bro, douchebag, developer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not a good stereotype to conjure up, even in some ironic-parody-hipster sense.&lt;p&gt;It isn&apos;t a joke, either; I&apos;ve definitely seen programmers where I&apos;ve worked who &lt;i&gt;really do&lt;/i&gt; act like that -- and they are like toxin for introverted programmers.  Most other programmers probably don&apos;t appreciate a &quot;bro&quot; constantly talking about his sexual conquests instead of interesting technical topics or hobbies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lizzard</author><text>Hipster irony that sounds and behaves exactly like actual misogyny, as far as I&apos;m concerned, &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; actual misogyny.&lt;p&gt;A lot of bigotry and exclusionary behavior is couched in terms of being &quot;just a joke&quot;.</text></comment>