Sexist Language Earns Sqoot Lots of Fury
Sqoot, a daily deal api, in an attempt to rally the Boston tech community for a hackathon, got it profoundly wrong.
- The current version of the API jam does not contain the offending language:
Boston API JamTweet and get in for free! http://bit.ly/A46MBD Boston API Jam Saturday March 31st through April 1st, 2012 Forget everything you kn...- It has been, however, captured by hundreds of people.The Perks included lots of things... including women.
“Need another beer? Let one of our friendly (female) event staff get that for you.” apijam-boston.eventbrite.com You’re kidding me, right @sqoot?
RT @cbarrett: Words fail. So fucking angry. Fuck you, @sqoot img.skitch.com/20120320-fmsc5… twitter.com/#!/cscotta/sta… twitter.com/#!/sqoot/statu…
RT @webstartwomen: .@sqoot You're missing the point. Listing "Women" as a perk akin to massages and top shelf booze is demeaning. cc @WorkBarBoston- Mike Maney aptly pointed out that this day featured a great triumph for women in a whole other industry:
Day of Contrast: Saudis OK women for Olympics espn.go.com/espnw/olympics… vs @Sqoot OKs women to fetch beer img.skitch.com/20120320-fmsc5…- Soon requests started flowing to the sponsors to pull sponsorship:
RT @SteveStreza: @cloudmine @TheLevelUp @ConstantContact @mongohq @SimpleRelevance @Heroku Please pull sponsorship for @sqoot's hackathon sexism.- Some sponsors backed out:Heroku:
- Apigee:
- MongoHQ:
@shameonseamus Thank you for your note ... we do not support this behavior and are in touch with event orgs to see that changes are made.CloudMine:
