wildchocolate:

However, what this experience and other similar encounters I have had in the last three years as a Mac developer have started to suggest is, maybe the Mac community doesn’t want people like me to be comfortable? Perhaps they would rather keep this a boy’s club forever, and it’s simply irritating when people like me disrupt that.

Wow, does that thought scare me. Coming from a different industry where diversity is praised and encouraged, could it be that software developers want the exact opposite? Clearly not all of us. But, perhaps some of the organizers of this particular conference gravitate toward that mindset.

Yikes, people. Don’t complain about there being no women in our industry if you can’t even keep it professional at a conference where you’re representing your company and products. If that’s what you’re like on your best behavior, what are you like every day at the office?