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SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes
tsamsoniw writes "Hoping to strike a blow against sexism in the tech industry , developer and tech evangelist Adria Richards took to Twitter to complain about two male developers swapping purportedly offensive jokes at PyCon. The decision has set into motion a chain of events that illustrate the impact a tweet or two can make in this age of social networking: One the developers and Richards have since lost their jobs, and even the chair of PyCon has been harassed for his minor role in the incident."
I am pretty sure being a developer evangelist doesn't involve you alienating more than half of developers with your tweeting.
I'd say that apart from the PyCon organizers, who made the best out of a bad situation, everyone else in the story - Adria, her employers, Mr-Hank, and his employer - all made dick moves, but ... hang on, my boss wants to talk to me.
*Joke about dongle*
*drama*
*Rocks fall, everyone gets fired*
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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:
Classic. Who can read that without a tear? Can anyone provide a place that I can donate to her legal defense fund?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Burma Shave!
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Our boss gave a curt ultimatum:
"Don't make dick jokes near people who hate 'em."
"If you act like a boor
We will show you the door."
(We can fire them, since we can't castrate 'em)
I'm Message Approval Man, and I approve this message.
Better the whole world blind than just the assholes with sight.
Scorta futuere amo!
who talks about women's c*nt sizes? tits, sure, but c*nts?
I think it's Sarah Silverman that has a funny bit about it. I'd post a link but when I Googled "large vagina" I didn't get the results I expected.
Or rather, I got what I expected but not what I was looking for...
Or rather, you got what you were looking for but not what was relevant to this conversation?
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.