Posted on 03/22/2013 10:14:00 AM PDT by Alistair Stratford IV
Earlier this week at the PyCon conference (the largest annual gathering for developers using the open-source Python programming language) a woman named Adria Richards overheard a joke between two men sitting behind her during a crowded presentation.
Richards was offended and took a picture of the two men who were making jokes. She tweeted, "Not cool. Jokes about forking repo's in a sexual way and "big" dongles. Right behind me #pycon." She also attached a photo of the two people making the jokes.
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I think Adria’s life/career will follow a path similar to your former co-worker, only worse due to internet exposure.
I don’t know about Nazis, but it sure reminds me of “The Lives of Others” when the young Stasi agent gets busted for telling a joke about Erich Honecker.
“Hardware keys” is two words...
I guess you didn’t get the memo, but women are to be treated as equals now, so showing them extra respect is, according to them disrespectful.
Some people expect adults at a professional function to act like adults, the horror.
Thus the need for a single word, ‘dongle’..........
Did she expect anything? All she did was dissent on Twitter.
What’s not being reported in this little blow up is this very chick made sexual jokes earlier the very same day on twitter about stuff socks in someone’s pants..Evidently she is known for off color comments and is now riding this one out to whatever benefit she thinks she can gain.
Computer software sales reps might leave her alone ~ OH NOES.
“If the little Nazi didn’t get a release from those men to publish their photos, wouldn’t they be able to sue her?”
Yep. Defamation. Slander. False light. (depending on what state they are in)
I’d sue in a heartbeat, for subjecting me to national ridicule, making me a notorious figure, and causing me to lose my job.
Her website is a nightmare....this woman will ruin your life in a heartbeat over a joke and think nothing of it...scary.
Maybe I’m missing something here, but how is a picture of the guy proof that he was making inappropriate comments? It seems to me it’s his word against hers.
Her actions will have a serious cooling effect on any future hires...........
It would be different if they had made those statements on the stage as part of a presentation. This was about two guys chatting with each other and being overheard by some busybody.
Of course she expected something, otherwise she would have just asked the two men to knock it off instead of airing her grievance publicly.
I’m more annoyed that they were talking, period, during a presentation. I don’t pay money or take time to attend something like that to listen to office banter. Shut up and listen to the presenter.
The topic of their discussion was fairly irrelevant.
I could just imagine the reaction of somebody overhearing "The daemon was spawning children faster than we could kill them" and such.
It would seem to be grounds for some sort of civil action on the part of the 2 men in question.
Of course, the fact that the accused are members of a particular demographic that’s currently demonized, and the accusers demographic is currently ‘protected’ might negate some of the civil tort that might ordinarily happen.
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