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In reply to the discussion: Donglegate, and why we don't have more women in tech [View all]2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)98. Where is that Kickstarter link you speak of?
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"Stroke"? That sounds an awful lot like a sexual innuendo. FOR SHAME!
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2013
#27
ok... I seriously laughed out loud.. the dogs are looking at me like I'm nuts
opiate69
Mar 2013
#139
Hell, I *live* in Portland, and I've always been sort of lukewarm on that show.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2013
#37
They never once used the word "public reaction" in his/her post. There were two lines about it.
Kurska
Mar 2013
#94
He said she fought the patriarchy, how is that anything besides a justification or at least praise?
Kurska
Mar 2013
#113
Yes I do think an employer would fire someone over a single remark I've seen it
Kurska
Mar 2013
#144
I don't think she is fighting the "patriarchy" FYI, she is just a self promoter trying to make money
snooper2
Mar 2013
#167
So your chief objection here is that she was theoretically threatened with rape? n/t
Demo_Chris
Mar 2013
#38
No. It is my way of avoiding a definitive and possibly libelous statement. n't
Demo_Chris
Mar 2013
#81
You're not being a busybody to complain about an offensive comment said loudly enough
Honeycombe8
Mar 2013
#33
Oh, no you're not. He said it loudly enough in a crowd for others to hear. It's
Honeycombe8
Mar 2013
#63
She handled it wrong. But that's not being a busybody, which means interfering in
Honeycombe8
Mar 2013
#100
yes, it's being a freaking busybody. Like a lady who calls the police because she heard her
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#126
why the FUCK is everybody ignoring simple moral issues and bending over backwards to defend the guys
redqueen
Mar 2013
#55
It wasn't malicious when the guys made the penis joke and it wasn't malicious when she made the
dkf
Mar 2013
#154
she didn't 'challenge the patriarchy'. to equate his act (making a penis joke to a friend) with
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#3
I understand quite well; that culture is tolerated a/o encouraged by management or
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#20
eavesdropping on a conversation she wasn't a part of, taking someone's picture without permission,
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2013
#13
My Wife is a Feminist who functions very well in the tech industry, doesn't take any shit,
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2013
#43
It's not private when they were in a setting where EVERYONE ELSE could hear their shit.
alp227
Mar 2013
#53
I'm sorry, but a "Dongle" joke is not something to make a fucking Federal case over.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2013
#60
The ONLY reason it is such is because of the trolls who retaliated against Richards.
alp227
Mar 2013
#124
Well if women are going to make dick jokes and then try to get men fired for doing the same...
dkf
Mar 2013
#14
honestly i dont get donglegate. i think public shaming for a private joke
La Lioness Priyanka
Mar 2013
#34
i think i would defend it, if they were making genuinely hateful comments
La Lioness Priyanka
Mar 2013
#103
My girlfriend can identify about half-a-dozen reasons why there aren't more women in high tech,
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Mar 2013
#46
Is it okay to post peoples' pictures on the internet without their consent, or isn't it?
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2013
#49
If you are at a protest holding a sign, you are by definition asking for public attention.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2013
#136
Because she picked the shittiest venue to resolve a conflict and the inhabitants...
JVS
Mar 2013
#88
Dongle jokes are not as bad as marketing types refering to engineers as nerds, geeks and techies
FarCenter
Mar 2013
#116
It is when technically clueless twenty something marketing blondes apply it to computer scientists
FarCenter
Mar 2013
#121
no, it's not. as far as i know computer scientists have never been lynched
La Lioness Priyanka
Mar 2013
#122
OK, but they are still hugely insulting terms, and should never be used in a professional setting.
FarCenter
Mar 2013
#125
yeah being called fat is hugely insulting but its nothing like a racially loaded word
La Lioness Priyanka
Mar 2013
#127
If one of these guys had grabbed her ass, asked her for sex, commented on her body,
Nye Bevan
Mar 2013
#132
In my long career, I have witnessed and been subjected to quite a bit of
Live and Learn
Mar 2013
#156
There's no indication that Ms Richards had a difficult teen or early 20's career
FarCenter
Mar 2013
#168