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                                             July    28, 2009
                                             October 30, 2009
A much discussed talk at a                   May     12, 2010
Ruby conference: Matt
Aimonetti's "CouchDB + Ruby:        (using five slides of sub-R-rated
Perform Like a Pr0n Star."           sexual material, I gather...)

This display of "pornography"                   [ref]
and sexual humor at a
technical conference was taken                  The text-only:
amiss by some and defended by
others: a tempest where no one                  [ref]
escaped undrenched by the tea.

     It's a subject that appears to attract
     only the most polarized commentators.

        In something like this, it's
        all-too-easy to drop into a           It's the kind of issue
        standard mode, to follow one          where sometime later it
        well-worn mental groove,              often comes as a surprise
        ranting about the stupidity           to all parties in the
        of the Other Side.                    fight when they realize
                                              that they've run off
             A case in point:                 into extreme corners where
                                              very few actually want to
             FEMINISM                         follow.


       nametaken of slashdot comments:
                                                                     [ref]
       "Careful, this conversation is a TRAAAAP.

       "Apparently you either agree that
       there's rampant sexism in the FOSS
       community or you're 'displaying
       similar levels of denial, abuse,
       and ignorance'. "





   The "geekfeminists" who are
   critical of things like this           Similarly, the defenders
   talk express some disdain              of this talk like to
   for the level of vitriol in            say things like "it was
   the responses to their                 only a joke"... but that
   criticism.                             also seems disingenous.
                                          It was intentionally
     But that seems disingenous:          inappropriate, or at
     when you're accusing people          least near the edge of
     (however delicately) of              inappropriateness:
     something like sexism -- not         that's what was supposed
     to mention, *insensitive*            to be funny about it.
     males-- you're *trying* to
     get a response out of                    BEHAVIORAL_CODE
     them... wouldn't it be more
     worrying if they didn't
     object strongly?

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