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Re:Speaking up by konstruktor on Monday February 04, 2013 @01:08PM (#5165837)
Why worry about the meaning of the terms you use when there is an opportunity to call somebody who disagrees with you names?
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Re:Speaking up by h2s on Monday February 04, 2013 @01:59PM (#5166203)
Well done you. It's about time somebody stood up for men brave enough to pitch improbable edge-case possibilities in order to anonymously undermine a woman reporting her experience of sexual harassment.
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Re:Speaking up by konstruktor on Monday February 04, 2013 @03:03PM (#5166707)
If you actually read TFA, you will notice that Sarah Parmenter is consistently using gender neutral pronouns to refer to the person(s) who put online those pictures and male pronouns for the guys wrote her inappropriate messages. That is very conscious use of language.

Put that in contrast to the person who is calling somebody who is stating that the perpetrator might have been one (sic) female a ""conspiracy theorist"" and talks about "obvious truth".

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Re:Speaking up by hopeless_case on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @11:43AM (#5171574)
>Put that in contrast to the person who is calling somebody who is stating that the perpetrator might have been one (sic) female a ""conspiracy theorist"" and talks about "obvious truth".

all the while supposing that there is a consipracy among men to make women feel uncomfortable at tech conferences.

If irony had mass, this thread would undergo gravitational collapse and form a singularity.

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