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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:wyministic agenda! Re:wyministic agenda! (Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:11PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:11PM (#258981) Journal

  Want to work in porn? Turn in your feminist card and prepare to be attacked on every front they can manage.
   
  Here's an experiment: Google "feminist views on porn" and show me the "one true answer."
   
  Or, perhaps you will note that there is a diversity of opinions and a healthy debate on that front.

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• Re:wyministic agenda! (Score: 2, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:30PM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:30PM (#259066) Homepage Journal

  Here's a thought then, how about you start loudly and publicly decrying the radical anti-liberty, anti-choice, anti-men nutjobs coopting your label and take things back to second gen egalitarianism? If you're not willing to do that, who can help thinking it means you're okay with the blue-haired harpies and their views?

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