I’ve been a web designer for over a decade and I’, a community leader on the Boagworld forums- and I’m honestly shocked.

OK, I know the world’s not perfect, but one thing I’ve alway loved about our industry is that actually, we’re often a little bit nicer – and perhaps naive (in a good way) – than everyone else.

Other industries, for example, don’t have the openess that the web design industry does.

I know a lot of web designer and developers and I can honestly say that I don’t know one person who I would consider sexist – and certainly not the kind of moron who would go on a chat and say things like that.

In fact, quite the opposite.

I can also say that this doesn’t represent the boagworld community either – certainly not as represented in the forums.

I can only hope that the people making these comments on live podcast were actually teenage boys who need to grow up than actual men in our industry.

The fact you’ve seen similar things on conference backchannels worries me though, because those people AREN’T teenage boys.

Whoever they are, it’s very, very sad – or rather they are very, very sad.