Yes. And in fact, you're the first person in these comments to mention the subject at all.

How many people are thinking of an issue for every persion than mentions it?

Please don't carry that into every thread about Python...

Now they're seeing what us Rubyists had to put up with for a while..

I should probably leave this can of worms closed.. but I'm curious. Did you Ruby guys have a similar debacle at one of your conferences?

Yes and no. There have been various things including people including naughty pictures on slides, speaker rosters not being diverse enough, etc. Nothing to be proud of, but a certain group of saber-rattlers believes it's indicative of a 'community' problem, when as this week's issue shows, it's really just the sort of social clashes you get when any large number of people come together.

That is, this is no more a sign of the "Python community" being bad as the other dramas were for the "Ruby community."