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Re:The PyCon Incident by geekam on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:15PM (#5417541)
She turned around, smiled and took their photograph. She can do that and not confront them about the lewd remarks?

Though, I understand that it is tough for women to confront in a massively male-dominated arena. I think this fiasco is likely to at least have men straighten their ways that they cannot make sex jokes in a public place.

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Re:The PyCon Incident by pyre on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:58PM (#5417842) 

  | She can do that and not confront them about
  | the lewd remarks?
As someone that doesn't like to be confrontational, this makes sense to me. Verbally confronting them means engaging them in conversation. Taking their photo and smiling at them is a bit more passive.
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