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posted by janrinok on Thursday November 05 2015, @04:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-a-sad-world dept.

As if they hadn't discredited the movement enough already, feminists are now reportedly attempting to collect scalps from notable men in tech. And they're not worried about little things like the sexual assault they report actually happening.

Feminists in tech have been staging attempted "honey traps" to frame prominent male software developers for sexual assault, according to explosive claims on the blog of Eric S. Raymond, a pioneer of the open source movement. In allegations that will rock the world of software development, prominent targets included Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.

Raymond quoted excerpts from an online chat with a trusted source, who told him that the Ada Inititiative, a recently-discontinued feminist advocacy group in tech, was trying to "collect scalps" by concocting charges of attempted sexual assault against male software developers.

The source told Raymond that the "MO" of the feminists was to "get alone with the target, and then immediately report "attempted sexual assault." The source said he had stopped mentoring female developers over fears that they might fabricate such charges.

In before someone disbelieves the message because they dislike the messenger.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @05:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @05:15AM (#258687)

    I know this sort of thing goes on all the time, but in my world a married man or a much older man doesn't spend one on one alone time with a woman "mentoring" her. That is total BS and everybody in my culture knows it.

    Then you're a fool. Not everyone has the same goals and desires. What about gays? What about asexuals? What about people who simply aren't interested in having sexual relationships with every female on the face of the planet, or any female at all? It's easy to project, but apparently less easy to understand that other people might be different from yourself or other people you know.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jdavidb on Thursday November 05 2015, @05:16AM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Thursday November 05 2015, @05:16AM (#258688) Homepage Journal
    I assume gays and asexuals also are not interested in being accused of doing something they didn't do that could ruin their career or life. But that's up to them.
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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:21AM (#258714)

      So you both believe that most or all of men are driven by sexual desire above all others and women will try to trap men with false allegations. Your world is a strange place concocted by an unattractive mind.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jdavidb on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:25AM

        by jdavidb (5690) on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:25AM (#258718) Homepage Journal
        Your world seems to be a strange place of non sequiturs.
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        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:25AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:25AM (#258734)

          Your world seems to be a strange place of non sequiturs

          Wonderful. I like a world where nothing follows. Not a bad place, once you get used to it. Just follow me to over here. ERS, the man is a saint! He is a pacifist, who owns no guns! So all criminals, feminists, and socialists, can contribute to his Patreon fund. To get his physical location. So we can have gay sex with him. This is what he wants! You say "non sequitur"? I say, bend over ESR? Equally vaiid.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:39AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:39AM (#258750)

          I said nothing of my worldview, only what you are arguing. Mirroring is the term that comes to mind in regard to your own actions.

          • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Thursday November 05 2015, @01:17PM

            by jdavidb (5690) on Thursday November 05 2015, @01:17PM (#258807) Homepage Journal
            No, that's not what I was arguing.
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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:18PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:18PM (#258887)

              > No, that's not what I was arguing.

              I am sure you don't think you were arguing that. But that doesn't stop it from being the logical conclusion of your arguments.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:31PM

        by SanityCheck (5190) on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:31PM (#258854)

        Best I can describe it to you is that no it definitely doesn't happen all the time and in all cases. But it definitely happens more often than you would think. Yes people lead different lives, some interesting some not so much so (and I do not mean interesting in a good way, nor that having boring life is bad). So people look at certain things on TVs, in the movies, in books, and in music and think how outrageously outlandish that is. They wonder where do these people even come up with this crap? Truth is more often than not it is inspired by real events (people like to think they are creative but mostly they are just good at recycling), and there are people out there who will see and hear the same exact thing as someone who just dismissed it as outlandish and go "yup, happened to me."

        Now if you are a person to whom things like that happen, yes you might think it happens all the time to everyone. Likewise, if you would never find yourself in such a situation you might think it hardly ever happens. It's just the bias we have. Imagining the world beyond the scope of what you see through the two round openings in your skull or what you hear through another set of openings is pretty hard, and impossible for a great deal of people.

        (yes I know that your eyes are technically not inside your skull, but seated in the sockets that are part of your skull)

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:51PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:51PM (#258864) Journal

    GP was talking about men - not all those assorted other creatures.