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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, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:31PM
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)