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Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture?
owenferguson writes "Valerie Aurora, Linux kernel file systems expert, takes DEFCON to task for poor sexual harassment policing. A nice followup piece to the recent Readercon fiasco."
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Not trying to be conspiratorial, but why is it Occupy Wallstreet, Julian Assange, and now "hacker culture" all get accused of sexual assaults? What is the connection?
The connection is that people were sexually assaulted.
As opposed to the systemic bigotry directed at men as a result of 'equality' and 'diversity 'training' pushed from every institutional orifice? Labeling all men who don't conform as deviants or molesters is par for the course for this kind of activism. It distorts the original intent of organizations, eating them out from the inside like a virus invading a healthy cell, until they become little more than mouth pieces for ideological politics, with their original goals distant seconds. I certainly don't advocate the abuse of anyone, individual to individual, or society to individual. That's why I'm anti 'political correctness.' Selling out to the government so that it acts like a battering ram for your interests while claiming perpetual victimhood is dishonorable to say the least.
Really? The current cultural climate is causing more and more men to walk away from societal trappings, at the expense of society's long term viability. I believe they call it 'going their own way.' They abstain from marriage, from women, in some cases, and most importantly, from any shouldering of traditional responsibilities that women's groups hypocritically hold men to while they rail about 'equality.' The fact is, women are just as likely to physically and psychologically abuse as men are, in the work place, in school, and at home.
The traditional 'hacker ethos' has been a strict meritocracy. You gain respect with accomplishment. Not with penises or vaginas. I'm sure there are women hackers. The only group one can 'blame' for any 'inequality' is women themselves.. Assuming this is unfair just assumes that men and women are interchangeable. We're not. We do not have the "same thoughts and feelings." The genders evolved to be complementary, each with proclivities and imperatives the other lacks or has less of. We did not evolve to be at war with each other.