Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out

Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by cheez on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @09:23PM (#5412111)

Ah, I hope they realize what a liability they have on their hands. For example, imagine if a developer ACCIDENTALLY looked at her while walking by.

Can you say sexual harassment lawsuit?

LOL. This woman is bad news.

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Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by littlegiantcap on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @10:18PM (#5412348)

All I'll say is this, and really it's what it boils down to. Regardless of if you think she was in the right or the wrong, she is a developer evangelist. That means she goes around and tries to get companies to pick up her product. After all this, I wouldn't get near her with a 40 foot pole. God forbid I slip and say something that get's misconstrued and I or my company gets dragged through the mud. With that being said, I feel like she's lost the ability to do her job. If she's an evangelist and the people she's supposed to be evangelizing don't want to be around her, where does that leave her or Sendgrid?

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Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by cheez on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:36AM (#5412947)

I don't want to live in a world where her actions are right so I will stick with them being wrong, childish and immature.

She clearly broke the PyCon rules with her public shaming as well. I hope they don't invite her back.

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Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by wilmoore on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:52AM (#5413392)

Can you say sexual harassment lawsuit? LOL. This woman is bad news.

This is exactly the type of attitude that perpetuates the idea that a woman should not say or do anything if uncomfortable.

see: https://twitter.com/jackdanger/status/314604363614134272

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Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by singleuse on Friday March 22, 2013 @08:29AM (#5422501)

Definitely not. She's clearly in the abuser position and her reaction was disproportionate and inconsiderate, to the like of baseless sexual harassment lawsuits we've all heard about.

I'd even go an extra step and say IMHO what she did was misplaced sexism as she misinterpreted and misrepresented the situation and would probably not have done anything if women were making the same dongle joke.

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Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by cheez on Thursday March 21, 2013 @06:49AM (#5414158)

I don't think she shouldn't have said anything. But taking it to the Internet without talking to the guys was her choice.

If someone is making you uncomfortable, you say something. You don't go nuclear just because someone else, somewhere else called you a whore.

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Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by askien on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @09:44PM (#5412209)

This woman is bad news, and she's making all women look bad.

Option 1 - Hire a guy Option 2 - Hire a woman, and out of nowhere she'll cause me trouble with some random harassment charge.

Harassment is a SERIOUS offense. If everything becomes harassment then it stops being serious and it becomes a reason to not hire women.

How many men have caused a stir on a conference over sexism? EVERY single woman so far behaved correctly, in every single conference?

Or is it the fact that when women misbehave men laugh it off (cause it's cool, right? She made a pass at me, right? right?) and women get on a stupid crusade over ANYTHING and EVERYTHING???

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Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by flyinRyan on Friday March 22, 2013 @08:24AM (#5422494)

Not anymore!

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