Morrie the Toupee Salesman

It’s not hard to see what’s wrong with journalism in an article like this one:

“Men, on the other hand, have no such pretenses. Often, “they try to show how clever they are by writing very cryptic code,” she tells the Business Technology Blog. “They try to obfuscate things in the code,” and don’t leave clear directions for people using it later. McGrattan boasts that 70% to 80% of the time, she can look at a chunk of computer code and tell if it was written by a man or a woman.”

The pathetic quality of this article aside, if I was a male programmer who reported to Ms. Grattan I’d be hiring a lawyer right now. Ridiculous and bigoted generalizations aren’t any better directed at men than at women.