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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.

                               
      A user at slashdot named      
      "nametaken" commented:                                         [ref]
                                    
         "Careful, this                  CROSS_TRAP
         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            Similarly, the defenders
   critical of things like this           of this talk like to
   express some disdain for the           say things like "it was
   level of vitriol in the                only a joke"... but that
   responses to their 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 to        that's what was supposed
   mention, being Insensitive             to be funny about it.
   Males-- you're *trying* to get      
   a response out of them...                  BEHAVIORAL_CODE
   wouldn't it be more worrying if      
   they didn't object strongly?      
                                 
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