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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Sir Finkus on Thursday November 05 2015, @01:35PM
This is going to need some independent verification, or some evidence. Why hasn't Linus said anything, or any other male OS developers who are part of this supposed protection programme?
Lets be honest here, if they did they'd be pilloried by a large (and very vocal) section of the tech world. Linus probably has the clout to say just about anything he wants, but might not want to deal with it.
There are certain opinions that are dangerous to express honestly. People have gotten fired for less.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by mojo chan on Thursday November 05 2015, @01:46PM
So it's bullshit. If there was any evidence that these measures were needed they could publish it. Instead it's all just innuendo and rumour.
This has about as much credibility as the lizard illuminati running the world. One guy with an agenda, a secret source and zero evidence.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @01:51PM
This has about as much credibility as the lizard illuminati running the world.
You mean "The Patriarchy"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @10:24PM
I thought we were talking about facts and stuff with evidence to back it up, not opinions. So that's why there's nothing to back it up, because its not real and doesn't exist outside of these nutjobs' heads.