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> Douglas Crockford, uninvited from NodeVember, the general opinion is that he said something that a woman didn't like Anything to back that up?

• tnone 10y ago
  This post compares the allegations with the harmless actual quotes: http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford This appears to have been the instigator: https://twitter.com/nexxylove/status/771503661956501504 https://twitter.com/nexxylove/status/771503661956501504
  • iNerdier 10y ago
    I don't get how either of those quotes could be seen as attacking anyone.
    • tnone 10y ago
      Congratulations, you've just discovered the truth behind the entire women in tech moral panic.
    • 77pt77 10y ago
      Maybe because you are mentally sane.
• woah 10y ago
  I don't want to look for it right now, but somebody dug up a "do you have the gonads for monads" speech and was offended by the mention of gonads. I think the conference that uninvited him ended up reinviting him.
• 0xCMP 10y ago
  side note: This happened without his involvement in social media at all. Others, collectively, used social media to get that effect.