Donglegate
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- Gucci
I came across this article on the Verge today. Pretty crazy how it all went down. Curious to hear some of the takes of the folks on QBN.
- mg330
tell me what this is in one sentence.
- albums0
- < this is what happenedalbums
- god this is beautifulscarabin
- damn, that would scare the living shit out of any corporationmonospaced
- boobs0
Fun's fun until somebody somebody gets pervy about dongles.
- GeorgesII0
You white males have it so easy at life compared to her a persecuted black jewish woman
- Gucci0
Prominent "Developer Evangelist" Woman overreacts to childish jokes at conference and posts photo of the joke-tellers on twitter (one of whom is subsequently fired) and eventually gets fired after threats are made to her and her employer.
- MarleyMarl0
*Yawn.
Nerdrama.
- identity0
What a c***.
Respectfully of course...
- instrmntl0
It's a great name for a gate. This is the second incident this week where social media/Twitter has gotten people in serious trouble. It seems like this will be the wave of the future.
- identity0
Can you IMAGINE presidential campaigns in 15-20-30 years?
Social media has/will erode our faith in humanity.Long live social media
- instrmntl0
haha @ "Brogrammer":
Donglegate: How One Brogrammer's Sexist Joke Led to Death Threats and Firings
http://www.motherjones.com/polit…
- monospaced0
- lol... power, yeah rightmonospaced
- What an utterly deluded moron..Hombre_Lobo
- men are a minorityshaft
- instrmntl0
Wow she sucks:
- "They started talking about “big” dongles. I could feel my face getting flustered."monospaced
- that's called arousal, womanscarabin
- monospaced0
These guys should be fired for making "soaking cork" jokes.
- instrmntl0
The responses are good. I can't believe I'm wasting my time reading these. Anyways,
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Marty Pitt • 4 days ago −
How are jokes about 'forking' exclusively disparaging toward women? These are jokes about sexuality, which, last time I checked, women only hold a 50% stake in.Are these more or less disparaging towards women, than jokes about socks down pants are towards men? [1]
Are jokes about socks in pants less about penises than jokes about big dongles? I'm confused.
How about retweeting cracks about autism? [2], or innuendo of dollar bills being 'six inches long' [3] -- this implies a sexuality that others may not be comfortable with.
As a developer, I find your jokes about the social awkwardness of other developers to be offensive. [4] (Am I overreacting because you used the hashtag of Joke? Is that what these guys were missing?)
Or is it okay to be sexist and offensive if it's done via twitter?
[1] https://twitter.com/adriarichard…
[2] https://twitter.com/TheSportsBra…
[3] https://twitter.com/adriarichard…
[4] https://twitter.com/adriarichard…
- ZOOP0
How many developers does it take to screw in a dongle?
- i_was0
c-u-n-t
- zaq0
- instrmntl0
This is a pretty good post/worth reading:
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
https://amandablumwords.wordpres…