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Eric Raymond: Feminists Are Trying to Frame Linus Torvalds

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

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

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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• Re:If they're doing this, they're not feminists Re:If they're doing this, they're not feminists (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @09:45AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @09:45AM (#258761)

  While we can't control what label they use for themselves, it might at least help to have a label we can use for them. I've used "cult-feminism" in the past. The implied analogy to cargo cults is imperfect, but they act so much like a cult in other ways that I think it's usable. Anyone have a better label?

  I believe many people use the term "SJW".

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• Re:If they're doing this, they're not feminists Re:If they're doing this, they're not feminists (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @10:57PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @10:57PM (#259152)

  No, from how its used the only definition I can see that makes sense for "SJW" is "anyone who disagrees with me".

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  • Re:If they're doing this, they're not feminists Re:If they're doing this, they're not feminists (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @11:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @11:48PM (#259179)

    I've never been called SJW by anyone, and I've disagreed with many people online. Have you ever considered that perhaps people call you SJW because you are one?

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    • Re:If they're doing this, they're not feminists (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @06:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @06:28PM (#259571)

      I've never been called SJW by anyone, and I've disagreed with many people online. Have you ever considered that perhaps people call you SJW because you are one?

      Maybe if I knew what it meant, I could consider that option, but none of its uses ever hint at any kind of meaning other than disagreeing about something. So what does it mean, other than "STFU asshole who disagrees with me"?

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