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Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy (drupalcamp.de)
An anonymous reader writes:
The organization team for a regional Drupal event apologized Thursday for distributing copies of Playboy to attendees. The magazines were distributed in welcome bags, according to a statement from the organizers of DrupalCamp Munich, and "were provided by Burda, a major German publisher, who also provided other technical magazines as part of their sponsorship. These magazines were approved for inclusion by the camp organizers.
"At the time, we thought it would be a good idea, as playboy.de was one of the first major Drupal 8 websites ever released. Upon reflection, this wasn't the best idea, and the magazines have been removed... It was a decision made in poor taste, and we regret it.
The inclusion of the magazine had attracted criticism on Twitter from both male and female developers, with one writing sarcastically, "Dunno about you, but I only read playboy.de for the Drupal code."
"At the time, we thought it would be a good idea, as playboy.de was one of the first major Drupal 8 websites ever released. Upon reflection, this wasn't the best idea, and the magazines have been removed... It was a decision made in poor taste, and we regret it.
The inclusion of the magazine had attracted criticism on Twitter from both male and female developers, with one writing sarcastically, "Dunno about you, but I only read playboy.de for the Drupal code."
That's why they included Playboy.
Here's a billion dollars. Now shut up.
Playboy no longer has pictorial spreads. They are basically a rich man's Maxim.
Playboy stopped having nude women in it like a year ago right?
...from a PR standpoint. This doesn't exactly help the perception about how misogynistic web development environments are for women. And the last thing a somewhat fading development platform (at least outside of large enterprise) like Drupal needs is for something to fire SJWs up...
Where was the, "Das ist eine wirklich schlechte Idee?", leadership from the conference organizers in Munich?
Can't we just ignore these social justices types already? They're worse than uptight conservatives from ages past.
There's nothing wrong with handing out Playboys, especially in Germany. We're not as prude as that regressive bunch on Twitter.
They are just nude shots. They hire some great glamour photographers, and really, if you got a problem with Playboy, you need to put on your belt buckle Puritan hat and get a fucking grip - and go back to "marrying" you 12 year-old "wives".
"The shapely female form has no place in Art!"
But the feminized SJWs here think that being whiny bitches about a magazine is their path to getting laid.
Bad news, losers, it doesn't work.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
I fapped on stage and everyone cheered!
draw criticism on Twitter?
at least outside of large enterprise
Large enterprise is the only thing that matters. There's a reason Acquia has consumed the entire fucking ecosystem, save for a few also-rans and a smattering of clueless development shops.
something to fire SJWs up
SJWs have already been a problem in Drupal, so I'll certainly agree there. But this isn't even SJW-level insanity.
This is common fucking sense - you don't distribute porn like this, regardless of how long Playboy's been sucking at the Drupal teat.
What exactly is misogynistic in Playboy?
They only show gorgeous women, well used to. That makes them evil because it perpetuates the idea that this "look" is better. Please ignore the correlation between "looks" and genetic indicators of reproductive health that evolution causes us to look for.
That said two interpretations of "used to" apply. (1) Used to show nudes. (2) Used to show more natural women, not so much surgically augmented.
...if it succeeds in keeping Social Justice Warriors away.
If it works there, then we can expand the process to science fiction conventions...
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The new issues have zero things to do with naked women. What's wrong with people?
Oh, I get it, special snowflakes.
If Donald Trump's electoral victory has taught us anything, it is that gleefully sticking it to the SJWs is a good PR-move.
I, for one, simply enjoy them watching them froth about human traits. They've been trying to shame us all into suppressing them for too long.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
That you are a pussy? We already knew that...
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Are you you some kind of anti-LGBT freak or victorian prude? Lots of women enjoy female nudity.
They should have included a copy of Playgirl magazine also, then it would have been even more equanimous. Taking out the magazine was the wrong thing to do.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
> . In some cultures, thin is attractive. In others, fat.
Specifically, in cultures in which the majority of people are overweight, where obesity-related causes such as heart disease are the most common causes of death, thinner than average tends to be a) healthier and b) generally considered attractive. In cultures in which food is scarce and malnutrition is a widespread problem, being heavier than the average starving peon is a) healthier and b) generally considered attractive.
Some people enjoy an excess of whatever is physically good, as if their libido thinks "if some is good, more is better". A plentiful supply of milk is good for reproductive odds, some guys enjoy very large breasts (where medium is sufficient); if a lot of people are malnourished thicker is healthier, and to some people very thick is very attractive.
Fashions vary, but standards of what turns people on is more the same across cultures than is different. (Especially when you factor in that "healthier than average weight" is the criteria - that may be thicker or thinner, depending on if the average is obese or malnourished).
Playboy has been in extremely bad taste ever since they lamified themselves into a Maxim-level cheesecake purveyor. Used to be a great magazine. Now it's just... offensive.
You know what you're doing when you tell people it's not okay to be nude, or show nudity, or that their informed, consensual expressions and/or informed, consensual sexual actions aren't suitable for any reason?
You're forcing someone to comply with the sexual issues you choose without their consent. Which should sound very familiar. It's not okay to force yourself on someone else's sexuality. It never was; it never will be.
It's also not okay, never was, and never will be, to expect that in the public square, you should be saved from seeing or hearing anything that you might not like. There should never exist a public "right not to be offended" and frankly, anyone who thinks such a thing should exist ihas lost their mind to abject stupidity.
The mindset here is one of applying non-consensual force to others to satisfy very particular agendas, Sick people, doing sick things. Playboy's okay. Interfering with people's freedom coercively is not.
Really, people need to chill out. When absolutely everything gets you offended, really your offendedness is meaningless.
That's great and all but do white women even have a right to whine about things like these?
Let's check the white woman privilege:
White men do the dying and blood-letting during the days of colonization to steal a lot of resources,
while white women only need wait in the comfort of home for all those resources to come on a platter, free and without any effort exerted.
Out of those resources:
- The majority of precious metals, gems, diamonds, went into the jewelry that adorn white women.
- The majority of hides, leather, silk, went into the purses, shoes, clothing of white women.
- The majority of wood and plants, went into the boxes and the makeup they hold for white women.
- The majority of quality and luxury wood went into the furnishing and senseless ornamentation for white women.
White men die, while white women laugh at home waiting for the exploited resources to be brought on a platter.
Incidentally, white women happen to be the most wasteful collective in the world in terms of resources. They use and waste so many goods and resources.
Additionally white men die on the job at least 10 times more than white women.
Seems like privilege is extraordinarily swayed towards white women.
What business do white women have in feminism? Oh i know. The best way to evade paying your due bill to the victims of exploitation over the centuries, to postpone it, is to use some fundamentalist childish tools like "feminism" as a smokescreen and curtain.
Feminism seems to be a cover for White Woman Elitism these days.
The elite class that benefited the most with the least amount of effort, which doesn't want to part with a single penny but would rather devise tactics for why it should be given even more, which also has a habit of banning any criticism of it to a religious level.
Western white women.
From TFS:
"were provided by Burda, a major German publisher, who also provided other technical magazines as part of their sponsorship.
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
There are going to be people that say things or publish things you find distasteful. If you don't like it don't partake in that activity/event/business/group/etc.
Are you under the impression that when people get offended they somehow have legal power to make you stop saying the offensive thing? They are fighting speech with speech. What mental gymnastics do you have to jump through to believe that people should be able to say the things you agree with but then when people don't like those things they are not allowed to argue back?
No,you have it wrong- obesity is not necessarily a direct risk factor for heart disease, and breast size has nothing to do with milk production....might want to try a little research rather than broadcast your imagination.....
Nice post, but no coment, I don't like playboy
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Exdit: typo.
> . In some cultures, thin is attractive. In others, fat.
Specifically, in cultures in which the majority of people are overweight, where obesity-related causes such as heart disease are the most common causes of death, thinner than average tends to be a) healthier and b) generally considered attractive
Yet who is considered to be ultimate hot right now? Kim Kardashian, whom I considered to be about as sexy as a side of pork. But a fair number of guys like that look with enormous buttocks and a lot of fat. And that's okay, people like what they like. But it sure as hell isn't a one size fits all world.
What I'm waiting for is demands for ugly modles so that ugly women don't feel put out. I'll bet that is coming. Why not? If Barbie can cause a girl to become bulimic, and if slender models make normal women feel inadequate, there are unattractive women out there who must be devastated every time they open a fashion catalog and see a pretty woman.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Gawdsakes women don't have tits & ass ... they have badbads.
Just wrong time and place - remember the ridiculous storm in a teacup over a bare nipple at the superbowl?
The same sort of fuss applies here.
Isn't that the saying when people get caught watching it?
"Oh I only read it for the articles."
"German publisher, who also provided other technical magazines"
There do seem to be some in the slashdot crowd for whom Playboy content would be considered technical information. Read and learn young code warrior! The world is a better place for men and for women when you grasp these principles.
...omphaloskepsis often...
That would be a nice argument if there was some universal agreement on what is attractive.
I recall seeing some documentary where they showed there are in fact universal preferences. One was the ratios between chest/waste/hips. Some societies scaling up and some scaling down, yet the ratios amazingly consistent. The other preference was for symmetry in facial and body features.
Others like their feet bound to the point that they can hardly walk ...
Now you've moved away from biology and refer to a desire to socially conform. While that also exists it is something separate from innate biological attractiveness like ratios and symmetry. Again, the later suggesting genetic health. Feet bound as a child offer no such indication, just that her parents taught here to be submissive to an extreme.
is more important than anything else. Reasons don't matter.
If it can be done cheaply/for free simply by dropping a magazine paid for by others into some bags - all the better.
They could at least go the traditional route and hire scantily clad booth babes to piss people off. Women with huge breasts need jobs too, you know.
Wow, 200+ comments and not a single troll shouting about PHP sucks, it's an abomination, no true Scotsman would even touch it, etc.
What the hell has happened to Slashdot??
I have a great deal of respect for women. It turns out that if you are a man, no matter how much you respect a woman, you still want to have sex with the hot ones.
One way to show them respect is to make sure they get their cookies too. The idea that lust equals disrespect is perpetuated by people who never have had sex with a woman they respect.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
"Dunno about you, but I only read playboy.de for the Drupal code."
Anyone else just throw up?
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
They found that there is plenty of pr0n on Internet and people really want to read it for the articles, but can't at work. PC police strikes again!
Just imagine if they'd given out free dongles.
The SJW's wouldn't rest until Drupal had been stomped flat into the ground!
When you have a name like "Drupal", you don't want to be associated with sex at all.
Table-ized A.I.