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Re:Forking and Dongle Jokes Don't Belong At Tech Conferences by CornishPasty on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @05:08AM (#5399710)
> Do you seriously think he'd do that if one of those weren't a female?

Uhh, yeah... If he was crude enough to make forking jokes, he wouldn't care what his audience was, perhaps he'd even prefer it to be guys so they can all laugh along with him...

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Re:Forking and Dongle Jokes Don't Belong At Tech Conferences by Tyrannosaurs on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @08:01AM (#5400336)
It's a fair point, though the whole thing is slightly irrelevant (the overall point you're responding to) as we shouldn't assume that men don't find this stuff offensive.
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