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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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:03AM (#258707)

    What movement is it that feminists have allegedly discredited?

    Feminism.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Vanderhoth on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:03PM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:03PM (#258873)

    I unfortunately have to agree.

    I considered myself a feminist to a degree, but in the last 5 years, you have people like Anita Sarkeesian, Maddy Brice, Samantha Allen, Lena Dunham, Randi Harper, Coraline Ada Ehmke, Shanley Kane, I could go on for quite awhile, who are using "feminism" as a way to push their authoritarian ideologies.

    The don't want equality, they want control and power, which they achieve by using a lot of good well intentioned people to support their sub-feminism hate movement. Whenever one of them gets called out for their awful behaviour, they just throw in the victim card and a lot of feminist feel compelled to defend them for the sake of the tribe.

    I certainly have a lot of respect for feminist that go against the grain like Cathy Young and Christian Hoff Sommers, who get constantly attacked by the above mentioned's cohorts for debunking a lot of bad statistics and narratives.

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