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                                                   April 27, 2021

A long time ago in a society that now
seems far away, there was a joke video
made at a particular technical conference
where different people at the conference
contributed different silly bits.  Not
too much of this video survives out in
the wilds, except in fragments.

   There's one where Damian Conway
   engages in self-parody, doing a
   description of the Perl 6
   project that makes it sound crazy.


A friend of mine recently described some other
bits from the video-- there were things like
a woman ranting at the camera complaining about
how male programmers are so obsessed with
breasts while the camera keeps drooping down
to focus on her chest.

    This sort of humor is now more or less
    forbidden by the behavior codes now
    universally in use at such conferences.

    The theory behind such behavior codes
    is that by making people behave in more
    restrained, bland ways, we will expand          Using general language
    the range of people who feel comfortable        to describe this doctrine
    at such conferences.                            always feels weirdly clunky.

                                                    The idea is something like:

                                                    We want more women.

          I think it might be worth                 Talking about sexy
          re-examinging this doctrine               stuff offends women.
          some time.   Like, does it
          work?  How would you know?                We will get more women
          Do we have any data?                      if we we restrain the dorks.

                                                        POLAR_TRAP


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