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FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial
Last Friday Bryce Byfield gave us a little insight into the fallout surrounding his article on sexism in the FOSS world. Unfortunately it seems that FOSS junkies did little better than the rest of the world with respect to sexism, displaying similar levels of denial, abuse, and ignorance. "But the real flood of emotion comes from the anti-feminists and the average men who would like to deny the importance of feminist issues in FOSS. Raise the subject of sexism, and you are met with illogic that I can only compare to that of the tobacco companies trying to deny the link between their products and cancer. Because I took a feminist stance in public, I have been abused in every way possible — being called irrelevant, a saboteur, coward, homosexual, and even a betrayer of the community. I know that many women in the community have been attacked much more savagely than I have, so I'm not complaining. Nor am I a stranger to readers who disagree with me, but the depth of reaction has taken me back more than once. I think the reaction is an expression of denial more than anything else."
I know a woman who later claim that a consensual makeout session was forced sex despite admitting that it was just an awkward makeout session. She describes a guy as "raping" her because they made out and she didn't really like him. When pressed she says "not actual rape". I know other girls who have done this too. The idea that men can be tossed around and slandered and used is sexist and the common woman seems to believe that this is acceptable. When mentioned, women will deny this is related to women as a gender and that some people are just bad. They also act as though men can't be victims and that a few men falsely accused of rape is acceptable because so many times it goes unreported. This illogic basically states that men can be torn apart by women at random because some men do bad things.
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Yours In Norislk,
K. Trout