Several female computer-science majors at Stanford pointed to the depiction of women in films like "The Social Network," where the boys code and the girls dance around in their underwear.
Other programs such as Girls Who Code, Black Girls Code and Black Boys Code work towards similar measures to incorporate minorities, but they do so at a smaller scale and through partner organizations rather than through the classroom.
The psychologist, William S. Pollack, offers, with Todd Shuster, "Real Boys' Voices" and immediately summons "the Boy Code," defined as "old rules that favor male stoicism and make boys feel ashamed about expressing weakness or vulnerability".
Her concerns were echoed by William Pollack, a best-selling professor of psychiatry at Harvard who warned of trauma to boys forced to hide their tender feelings by the stoic "Boy Code" and its "cult of competition".
Clyde appeared in Lucinda's life when the perception of the place was shifting — in the way of these things, its hick, redneck ways are now the half-rebel expression of an inexplicably charismatic, bad-boy code of excess — and he helped her to recognize the shift.
The police searched his house and discovered tobacco cans filled with explosives and two larger cans with the words "Fat Boy" and "Little Man," an apparent reference to Fat Man and Little Boy, the code names for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
Combining the constant movement of soccer and the aerial passing of football with a Boy Scout code of ethics, Ultimate is played between two teams of seven, on a rectangular field a hundred and twenty yards long and forty yards wide, including two end zones.
Matthew is dressed in his full Scout uniform and reciting the Boy Scout code as he sexily removes the cap and scarf and then unbuttons his shirt in a slow strip tease.
The school's Web site boasts about the Landon Civility Code; boys are expected to "work together to eliminate all forms of disrespect" and "respect one another and our surroundings in our decorum, appearance, and interactions".
Fast forward to his Bridge trilogy and you see the beginnings of a strange new San Francisco peopled with hackers, murderers, and code boys.
Her school was also fighting a trend called "area codes": boys rate girls with three digits, for their face, body, and "DTF -ness (politely: sexual eagerness).
