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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."
"It looks like everyone not fully embracing the SJW agenda is being purged in tech and entertainment industries" Yes, everyone. Purged. Of course you're right. All alpha-males are already being tracked for liquidation. The hunters have become the hunted, it's lambs eating lions now.
*(You wouldn't just say bullshit hyperbole like it were fact in Trump's America, would you? After all, HE wouldn't APPROVE. Wink wink, dogwhistle sound.)
Not a fair comparison. The BDSM community has Dominatrixes AND Dominants Male and Female. Gor has no such equality...that's the problem.
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
Yeah, I thought it was funny at first too. But when people start having their livelihoods destroyed for even conventional political or social deviations from the orthodoxy, I tend to stop laughing.
If your sex life involves subjugation of a sub-class of people anywhere, in this case women generally, that's going to be POLITICAL when it becomes public knowledge. If public facing, that raises questions - politics become real business decisions thus.
Women are half-or-greater of the total population. You're going to encounter them even as insulated as you might personally be from their proximity outside of work.
Consider that sex-positive women of ANY flavor were not considered employable professionally until the last half century, at best.
I agree, conceptually the prospect is frightening. You're QUITE new to claiming victimstance at the hands of overbearing orthodoxy though.
Fox News couldn't still exist as Rupert Murdoch's company in your rhetorical fantasy land, knowing what we know of him - and it.
You haven't seen "everyone purged" as you initially claimed, that's 110% horseshit, let's be real. Not 50%, not 25%, not 10%. You've seen a few individuals in certain politic-heavy public-eye organizations. Granted.
You can drop the hyperbole and come back to reality so we can discuss the issue, which I'll cede is valid, if not as you would have it applied rhetorically through anecdotes that don't actually exist anywhere near the scale you'd assert here.
Take a slightly longer view and see a lot more horizon before you lament the long walk, eh? Many have trod here already. And worse places. Yes yes, violin for you sir, play something sad.
If there's a case for it, it comes from the statement
"participate in, elaborate sexual subjugation fantasies, in which men are inherently superior to women."
The claim presumably being that the person believes this to be the case. What we then have is a free speech issue; is it still acceptable to believe that statement, or is it no longer covered by freedom of speech principles. Either position is problematic.