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We need to attract women like Adria because of their immense tech skills

http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/

The stuff about the dongles wasn't even logical and as a self professed nerd, that bothered me. Dongles are intended to be small and unobtrusive. They're intended for network connectivity and to service as physical licence keys for software. I'd consulted in the past with an automotive shop that needed data recovery and technical support. I know what PCMCIA dongles look like.

No wait, we need to attract them because of their superior people skills. Like tweeting a picture of someone and getting them fired over a stupid comment because they were too passive to confront them and too aggressive to just let it slide and then making up a bullshit but-think-of-the-children justification to make it seem like they were doing it for some higher purpose than self promotion.

Her resume has a "Special Skills" section with the following two items:

• Learned to drive stick shift 2005
• Gave away 500 free hugs Blogworld 2009

Adria Richards is not a feminist, fyi: http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/

What you are missing is that, as she writes in her blog post, http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/ she was wearing the hero cap when she outed those attendees on twitter. When she made that joke, she was wearing the naughty girl cap. There is no hypocrisy here, since she was only playing a part of hero in the first case, which is not always would do otherwise, when her desires of what character to be changes. Just like a cop doesn't always exhibit the same behavior when he is on duty and off duty.

Furthermore, although not perfect, Adria Richards is a much better arbitrator than the randomness of the universe. For example, if an animal was caught in a trap, the universe wouldn't do anything to prevent it from slowing starving to death. However, Adria Richards would release the animal, or at least kill it quickly with a rock (or communicate to someone about it to have it done by someone else), which is a much more compassionate outcome them leaving the animal to be judged by the randomness of the chaotic happenings in our world. Having Adria Richards judging and ruling and taking action on perceived crimes and injustice in a compassionate and from her perspective, a fair way, is better than the utter randomness and chaos of the universe, where one man can be a king, and his neighbor a beggar out of per happenstance.

Adria Richards is not perfect, of course, but the alternative is to live as beasts.

May Adria Richards always see you in a positive light. Adria Richards bless.

She is a modern feminist. Men are bad, rules don't apply to her, and if anyone dares disagree, they are WRONG!!!

Actually, she explicitly says on her blog that she's not a feminist. So, apparently it's just you who are WRONG!!!

Good for her. She stood up for herself when she was threatened (triggered). What was the trigger? She saw a photo on main stage of a little girl who had been in the Young Coders workshop. She realized immediately that she had to do something or that little girl would never have the chance to learn and love programming because the ass clowns behind her would make it impossible for the little girl to do so. What did these ass clowns do? They began making sexual forking jokes. What happened after the forking joke? A dongle joke. Incredible. Just like Popeye, she "couldn't stands it no more" and took action.

What did she do? She did what any hero would have done in her situation. She took a photo of the offending hipster males and posted it for the whole world to see. This was an outstanding, very brave effort for a woman who had just been triggered. She was applauded by the feminist blogosphere, and in the end was fired by a man in a position of power. The fucking patriarchy. Fuck them. Don't believe me, read the entire blog entry she wrote. It is all totally supported by the ideology that rules our campuses today. To quote her:

"Yesterday the future of programming was on the line and I made myself heard."

Classic. Who can read that without a tear? Can anyone provide a place that I can donate to her legal defense fund?