wrong question

[firecat]

There was a controversy at Pycon 2013 in which a woman of color tweeted a complaint about the language some men were using. As a result, she and one of the men lost their jobs, and she's getting a metric gigaton of harrassment, which is still ongoing.

This op-ed says IMHO all the right things about it. I'm mostly putting it here so I can find it later.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/03/22/why-asking-what-adria-richards-could-have-done-differently-is-the-wrong-question/


The situation is well summarized here:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/PyCon_2013_forking_and_dongles_incident


I'm not really in the mood to argue about whether the forbes op-ed is right, so I might be wielding an arbitrary ax in the comments section.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

I wish you could wield an axe in their comments section.

[lovepeaceohana]

...I'm at this point going to have to assume you mean this comments section, because I just can't keep struggling through the one on Forbes ;-;

[ironed_orchid]

I really liked this piece by Courtney Stanton on Buzzfeed: A Woman Walks Into A Tech Conference.

I read half a dozen decent articles on this, but the one thing they all have in common is awful comments.

[bibliofile]

Then there's this summary by the_siobhan.....

[eggcrack]

Wrong question indeed. *offers you axe sharpener*

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

some very good blog posts about the incident:

http://beardseye.blogspot.com/2013/03/off-with-their-heads-pycon-incident-and.html
http://www.quora.com/PyCon-Tweet-Controversy-March-2013/Was-it-appropriate-for-SendGrid-to-fire-Adria-Richards-over-the-PyCon-Tweet-Controversy/answer/Gayle-Laakmann-McDowell
http://www.buzzfeed.com/courtneystanton/a-woman-walks-into-a-tech-conference
http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/22/adria-richards-im-staying-safe/
http://www.standardista.com/death-by-1000-cuts/