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I can't take seriously an article that uses the devoted father defense: "But trying to tie Torvalds to sexual harassment is futile; the man has only dated one w
by wahern 8y ago
I can't take seriously an article that uses the devoted father defense: "But trying to tie Torvalds to sexual harassment is futile; the man has only dated one woman in his entire life, and he married her: Tove, a national karate champion in Finland, is the mother of his three daughters."
Which, to be clear, isn't to suggest Torvalds is guilty of sexual harassment or even that there exists an accusation of sexual harassment. AFAICT, there's only been the implication of harassment as the result of a supposed sexually disparate impact. But the author comes off as the other side of the so-called SJW coin.
- gnarbarian 8y agohttps://archive.is/H6Azs https://archive.is/H6Azs don't take that article's word for it. hear it from the horse's mouth.
- tomohawk 8y agoseems like that statement would be enough to get her banned from the project.
- gnarbarian 8y agoYou would hope so but these things are generally enforced very selectively.
- kazinator 8y agoIn the absence of someone coming forth with an accusation, you have to dredge up dirt. That's what "trying to tie Torvalds to sexual harassment" means, and he does have a poor attack surface for that sort of thing. So it seems like a reasonable remark just to point that out; it's not the devoted father defense.
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- wahern 8y agoI fail to see how it's a reasonable remark. Does it become unreasonable upon an actual accusation of sexual harassment? If Torvalds were a childless serial monogamist, should we be less surprised if it turned out he was secretly sexually harassing women? The remark reflects a false, antiquated view of sexuality and morality. If you want to argue against equivocating sexual harassment with tenuously linked incidental behaviors, it's not a great starting point, to say the least.