Tech LadyMafia

lifeandcode:

Here’s Google’s description of “Chrome Experiments,” a gallery of user-submitted Javascript: 

Chrome Experiments is a showcase for creative web experiments, the vast majority of which are built with the latest open technologies, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. All of them were made and submitted by talented artists and programmers from around the world.

We hope the projects on this site provide inspiration for anyone interested in experimenting creatively with the web. And we hope they show how the web has become faster, more fun, and more open – the same spirit in which we built Google Chrome.

All of the work here is user-submitted, so naturally we’re looking for more. If you’ve made something fun and fast in JavaScript, please send it in. We can’t post everything, but we’d love to see it.

But not if you’re a mother, apparently.  

I do realize, of course, that the person who chose the “not your mother’s Javascript” tagline did not intend to be sexist.  But all the little comments add up, and they add up to a culture that gives women and girls the impression that they are not welcome.

I expect this kind of thing from callow “brogrammer” types — but this site is an official project of Google, with Google’s logo on it, created and maintained by Google employees.