Today, a young app-maker and budding programmer, Alexandra Jordan, presented her idea at Techcrunch's Disrupt Hackathon. Her app serves to solve a problem her age-group often have: arranging playdates. Super Fun kidtime is down at the moment likely overwhelmed by traffic. In the audience were other younger ladies, from black girls code, probably adding finishing touches to apps of their own. And then....
A 9 year old girl had to demo her app alongside one named #titstare at #tcdisrupt. I have no words.
. Techcrunch has since written an apology to all of their readers and developers attending hackathon stating that the event was "marred by two misogynistic presentations". I'm not sure I would use the word misogynistic to describe a masturbation joke, because that's not so much woman-hating as self-loving. But I digress...
Sexism is a major problem in the tech industry, and we’ve worked hard to counteract it in our coverage and in our own hiring. Today’s issues resulted from a failure to properly screen our hackathons for inappropriate content ahead of time and establish clear guidelines for these submissions.
