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Re:I'll second the call for examples. by fahrvergnugen · 2009-10-12 05:18 · Score: 5, Informative · on FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial
Are you seriously going to sit there and argue that open source is a sheer meritocracy with a straight face? Okay. Here are 4 examples:
- Ruby on Rails sexism.
- Mark Shuttleworth refers to Linux as being “hard to explain to girls”. Ensuing flap is brutal.
- DrupalCon Paris homepage objectifies women. Although to be fair, the organizers made changes in response to pressure.
- Stallman refers to EMACS virgins, specifically "women who had not been introduced to EMACS" along with the advice that "relieving them of their virginity" was some sort of sacred duty for members of "The Church of EMACS".
That's the result of a 5 minute google search.