In tech industry-heavy cities, there’s a running joke that goes like this:\u00a0 \u201cI have been displaced from my residence because rent has gone up 200 percent and insanely wealthy young tech workers are moving into my place.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUrr, what are you, stupid!? Just learn to code.\u201d<\/p>\n
Okay, it\u2019s not much of a joke and it\u2019s not even that funny, because it’s a little too close to reality for many people. But it’s often a punchline to many conversations about the tech industry.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s another one: \u201cThere\u2019s a fine line between clever and stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n
That leads us directly to CodeBabes.com, an offensive site making the rounds of the outraged today.<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019ve developed a revolutionary learning program that leverages sexual desire and turns it into the most powerful learning mechanism known ever known to mankind!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
A self-proclaimed\u00a050\/50 entertainment and education site (“Learning doesn’t have to be boring :)”) that sits firmly on the stupid side of the previously-mentioned line. Code Babes claims to teach the basics of HTML, PHP, CSS and other coding practices whilst scantily-dressed women promise to become more scantily undressed as you progress.<\/p>\n
Is this satire? It\u2019s incredibly tone-deaf for satire, and from a tone-deaf industry that brought the world a cringe-inducing apps like Titstare<\/a>, and meat heads like Tony Shih<\/a> and Pax Dickinson<\/a>, probably not. Code Babes states that all the women on the site have CS degrees or equivalents.<\/p>\n