Donglegate

hatrickpatrick

I'm sure I'll get accused of sexism for this, but I'm getting fairly sick of living in a world in which anything remotely off colour or sexual said by a lad can be attacked as "misogynist" by the feminist PC brigade. Whatever happened to freedom of speech?

Sexual does not equal sexist. A sexual joke is not necessarily misogynistic, nor does any reference to sex or sexuality become sexist just because a woman might overhear it. Shock, horror - women joke about sex too y'know!
There are many wonderful human rights we all enjoy. The right to never be offended, and the right to see anyone who offends you suffer for it is not one of them. People seriously need to lighten up and stop looking for things to be offended about.

This whole incident reeks of her having a serious victim mentality in which she's deliberately looking for something to get annoyed about. People like this exist in all walks of life and the only thing they have in common is that they annoy the pants off everyone else.

Oh wait, sorry - am I sexist now because I mentioned pants, and pants contain body parts which are related to the subject of sex? :rolleyes:

Zombrex

I don't get how this joke was sexist or harassment.

It was a sexual joke, sure. But since when was mentioning sex an automatic attack at women? I hope people claiming that realize how actually sexist that claim is.

I appreciate that women have a hard time in male dominated industries (in pretty much the same way men have a hard time in female dominated industries), but really time and effort should be used combating actual sexual harrassment. If these guys had made a sexual joke towards her that would have been totally inappropriate given that they didn't know anything about her etc.

But that isn't what is happening here. I mean if you want to get technical about it the guy who made the dongle joke was, if anything, sexually harassing the other guy. The most Adria should have done is said "I hear what he said in front of you, and if you think it was inappropriate I have your back"

But making this about her because she is the woman and therefore by default they must have been sexually harassing her, is ridiculous.

Apparently she has a bit of a history of going looking for things to take offense at, a few years ago she objected to a talk being given because it had the term "Money shot" in it, she organized a campaign against the conference saying it "promoted pornography". And another time she objected to a T-shirt about Wordpress because she claimed it presented a woman not knowing what she was talking about and a man who did, missing the fact that both of the people on the T-shirt were actually women.

As they like to say on Tumbr, be a Social Justice Ally, not a Social Justice Sally.

hatrickpatrick

Zombrex wrote: »

I don't get how this joke was sexist or harassment.

It was a sexual joke, sure. But since when was mentioning sex an automatic attack at women? I hope people claiming that realize how actually sexist that claim is.

This exactly. And in fact, on Twitter I've seen a lot of girls I know mentioning that they find it utterly patronizing and that "Adria Richards certainly doesn't speak for me" etc.

The fact that someone lost their job because she decided to use them to make a political statement and further her own (ironically, sexist) agenda is depressing.