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Re:That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It... by MetaCosm on Sunday March 24, 2013 @07:23PM (#5434316)
What if we twisted the analogy the other way - what if the talk was "What my two dads taught me?" and the tagline was "Erlang -- two of everything is better".

Some people would find that absolutely inappropriate, pushing the homosexual agenda in a conference, violating their religious sensibilities. Do you think those Christians should speak up, start a petition, try to get the talk banned... or maybe just not go to it?

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Re:That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It... by dictum on Sunday March 24, 2013 @07:36PM (#5434364)
When I learned about the dongle incident, my first thought was similar—what if a heterosexual man didn't like a joke about some aspect of homosexuality a gay developer was sharing with his colleague?

Actually, now that I think about it, what if the developer who joked about dongles was gay? We know the developer is heterosexual, but Adria couldn't know then. Even if he used gendered language—what if he was closeted and couldn't talk about sex with men publicly? Why did she assume talking about penises meant he was a misogynist?

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