10 of the worst reactions to the Titstare fiasco

WEB users have flocked to a hacker forum to defend the Aussie developers who disgraced a hack event with a joke app called 'Titstare'.

10 of the worst reactions to Titstare fiasco

ROUGHLY five minutes after the embarrassment that was TitStare hit the web yesterday , Silicon Valley types flocked to Hacker News , a forum run by venture capitalist company Y Combinator to defend the app which collected photos of men looking at women's boobs.

Here's the video in case you forgot: Some patient types tried to reason with the mostly male commenters, explaining why an app like Titstare being presented at one of the biggest hacker conferences in the industry might alienate women from working in the tech industry. Only a few hours after the Titstare fiasco hit the news, Hacker News removed the post from its front page and made the comment threads invisible. Hacker News wasn't the only publication causing a storm yesterday. We've collected some of the worst posts from the discussion on Titstare that took place online. 1. Forbes journalist Tim Worstall wrote a lengthy piece explaining why people should "grow up" and "get over it" about Titstare. "Well, one possible lesson would be that some Australian young men are uncultured oafs but then that would be a tautology," he wrote. "Some men of any and every nationality are such. And it's probably not a bad idea for little Alexandra to know that. Indeed, I'd be rather surprised to find out that any young woman didn't know this already. And Alexandra is going to find, in a very few and short years, that the males of her peer group are going to be judging her in the typically shallow manner of male teens everywhere. "Whether women should be judged by their looks is one question: that they are and will be is another. There's no more point in complaining about this that there is about Pirsquared. It's just a fact about this universe that we inhabit." 2. And of course, Twitter users weighed in: 3. Business Insider CEO Pax Dickson also had a few things to say. 4. Hacker News commenter Parennoob apparently felt yesterday's outrage was "puritanical": "How is staring at breasts supposed to 'exploit' women? You have an extremely puritanical attitude when it comes to this. I wonder what you think of nude photo models. "Go back to the 17th century". 5. Rfnslyr "really thinks everyone should collectively loosen up." "The point is that, you, the reader, obviously understand that a word, concept or type of behaviour can offend others and would therefore abstain from employing it," he wrote. "What this really means is that it's not you who should take responsibility for your emotions, it's everyone else that should watch out for you. "What exactly did you get offended by? If you claim that prank was sexist in any way, you clearly lack the ability to judge a situation and its context." 6. User jessedhillon "totally agrees, dude": "That's my stand when I drop racial slurs ("slurs" am I right?) It's not my job to know which words are going to upset another person's emotional state! I'm not a mind reader! My responsibility is only to say what I want." 7. Someone played the Hitler card: "I bet you go from 0 to Hitler in under 6 seconds" - Hacker News commenter metaphorm 8. This: 9. Invasion? From user Tallio: "Sex is a biological need of humans. A lot of the tech industry has forward, progressive views on things such as gay marriage. Why retain these puritan, intolerant, purse-lipped attitudes towards sex-positivity? "Because feminism is invading. If you can't see this, you've probably not been a part of the tech industry for too long." 10. The other side? From user Farmer Jack: "If a female made an app that included men's butts, would people have the same reaction?"