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Mm, how so? I know nothing about that person specifically, so if there's substance to it then it's better to hear the full details. I worry about opening the d

Mm, how so? I know nothing about that person specifically, so if there's substance to it then it's better to hear the full details. I worry about opening the door to a low quality conversation though, so let's try to keep it objective and substantive.

waterphone 9y ago
She's the woman who got a developer fired for a comment she overheard between two other people that did not have sexual intent (relating to forking a repo) but which she interpreted sexually and flipped out over, accusing them of targeting and harassing her.
kfhoeihfy38h 9y ago
It's pretty simple. Richards was a developer evangelist who decided to start a public shaming campaign when she overheard some developers making a 'dongles' joke in a conference. Conference organizers in a display of weak-willed, hasty and cruel behaviour typical for people with trappings of power but no real power overreacted and expelled the developers. That got the poor buggers some extra publicity and was enough to get them fired. Richards herself has barely finished the self-congratulatory tour over the feminist twitter when she was fired herself in the first display of rational thinking in this story - after all who needs a developer evangelist who prioritizes witch-hunting developers over evangelizing to developers. And that's how you can know if anyone props Richards as a feminist martyr icon that they are trying to sell a false agenda. Same is true for Pao herself and a number of other things her article mentions.
detaro 9y ago
Does Donglegate ring a bell? A bunch of guys make "dongle" jokes at PyCon, Richards tweets their photo. As a consequence, one of the guys gets fired during the surrounding shitstorm, counter-shitstorm, Richards gets fired as well. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donglegate-adria-richards http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donglegate-adria-richar...

waterphone 9y ago

She's the woman who got a developer fired for a comment she overheard between two other people that did not have sexual intent (relating to forking a repo) but which she interpreted sexually and flipped out over, accusing them of targeting and harassing her.

kfhoeihfy38h 9y ago

It's pretty simple. Richards was a developer evangelist who decided to start a public shaming campaign when she overheard some developers making a 'dongles' joke in a conference. Conference organizers in a display of weak-willed, hasty and cruel behaviour typical for people with trappings of power but no real power overreacted and expelled the developers. That got the poor buggers some extra publicity and was enough to get them fired. Richards herself has barely finished the self-congratulatory tour over the feminist twitter when she was fired herself in the first display of rational thinking in this story - after all who needs a developer evangelist who prioritizes witch-hunting developers over evangelizing to developers. And that's how you can know if anyone props Richards as a feminist martyr icon that they are trying to sell a false agenda. Same is true for Pao herself and a number of other things her article mentions.

detaro 9y ago

Does Donglegate ring a bell? A bunch of guys make "dongle" jokes at PyCon, Richards tweets their photo. As a consequence, one of the guys gets fired during the surrounding shitstorm, counter-shitstorm, Richards gets fired as well. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donglegate-adria-richards http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donglegate-adria-richar...