I think I just sprained something from rolling my eyes so hard

[tim]

Why I want to set the entire open-source community on fire sometimes: the comments on this post and this post. (The latter of which is from one of my ex-bosses although I ran into it randomly, w00.)

Apparently, if you suggest that using a picture of a woman's bare ass on the title slide of a technical talk might not be the best idea if you want to make women feel welcome in CS, that is ~censorship~. I also can't decide whether it's those comments are the most special, or the ones asking whether also including pictures of naked men in the slides would have made it OK. Also see: examples of more or less every tactic mentioned in the link to "Derailing for Dummies" I posted before this.

I guess it's another entry for the Male Programmer Privilege Checklist. Also, I feel like I need to burn some more reddit karma, brb.

Comments

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

"What does this have to do with your topic?"
"I wanted to keep people's attention."
"We came here to see technical presentations. What does this have to do with your topic?"

Next time someone should put a bunch of baboon asses on their slides, just because.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

And people, after all, are men. (By which I don't mean gay men, because you know, they aren't men.)