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Prominent Drupal, PHP Developer Kicked From the Drupal Project Over Unconventional Sex Life (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Last week the Drupal community erupted in anger after its leader, Dries Buytaert, asked Larry Garfield, a prominent Drupal contributor and long-time member of the Drupal and PHP communities, "to leave the Drupal project." Buytaert claims he did this "because it came to my attention that he holds views that are in opposition with the values of the Drupal project." A huge furor has erupted in response -- not least because the reason clearly has much to do with Garfield's unconventional sex life. [Garfield is into BDSM, and is a member of the Gorean community, "a community who are interested in, and/or participate in, elaborate sexual subjugation fantasies, in which men are inherently superior to women."] Buytaert made his post (which is now offline) in response after Larry went public, outing himself to public opinion. Buytaert retorted (excerpt available via TechCrunch): "when a highly-visible community member's private views become public, controversial, and disruptive for the project, I must consider the impact [...] all people are created equally. [sic] I cannot in good faith support someone who actively promotes a philosophy that is contrary to this [...] any association with Larry's belief system is inconsistent with our project's goals [...] I recused myself from the Drupal Association's decision [to dismiss Garfield from his conference role] [...] Many have rightfully stated that I haven't made a clear case for the decision [...] I did not make the decision based on the information or beliefs conveyed in Larry's blog post." TechCrunch columnist Jon Evans goes on to "unpack" the questions that naturally arise from these "Code of Conduct conflicts."
Today I learned that Drupal had rules about sex. It must be for a plug-in.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
To be outed as a Drupal developer.
Um, are you claiming that a gorean lifestyle is associated with being a conservative?
Well, that certainly explains the modern GOP now doesn't it?
Isn't anyone who develops using Drupal or PHP into BSDM?
If this guy had been talking about transsexual/gay/bi-sexual BDSM
Apparently the BDSM rejects such labels as too narrow and arbitrary. LGBTBBQ stuuf doesn't even register on the BSDM weird-o-meter. This has actually caused some bad blood between the communities.
"Why can't you support the gay cause? Don't you know how much we suffer?"
"Oh? You think you know suffering?"
Dibs on the popcorn franchise.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Looks like someone hates being called to account for being a dick
Because, honestly, that is all the Social JUSTICE workers ever do
You must know different social justice warriors than I do. I've been called to account for lots of perfectly innocent statements. Statements that it's easy to misrepresent: statements that are excellent fodder for virtue signalling. On the other hand, when I'm actually being a dick (whether justified or not, by accident or on purpose), nobody calls me out. Because it's not easy to deliver true criticism.
A cat can't teach a dog to bark.
It's just a sub genre of dom.
I see what you did there.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.