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Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM

posted by takyon on Monday March 27 2017, @10:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the drupal-gored dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Drupal founder Dries Buytaert expelled Larry "Crell" Garfield from the Drupal community (archive) for his involvement in the BDSM community. Garfield claims this was done at the demand of Drupal Security team member Klaus "klausi" Purer and unknown others secretly pressuring Drupal leadership to have him removed for his private sex life.

takyon: From Larry's response:

I am involved in two such communities, specifically the BDSM community and the Gorean (Gor) community. The former is by far the larger of the two and more varied, although I spend more of my time and activity in the Gorean community. It's a small community, and sadly much of what is found online about it is utter crap, just as most in the BDSM community find the "50 Shades" representation of BDSM to be harmfully misleading. The Gorean subculture is inspired by a science-fiction book series written from the 1960s onward to today, and predicated on a strong sense of personal honor, integrity, and community. It also practices consensual Master/slave relationships, and has a strong gender bias toward male-Dom/female-sub relationships, but that is not the cornerstone of Gorean culture. There are other groups that are biased the other way, or have no gender bias. There are even groups in Chicago (where I live) that have regular "fem-dom" parties. To each their own.

It's the same Gor that was adapted into two films, one of which appeared on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday March 27 2017, @02:20PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday March 27 2017, @02:20PM (#484615) Journal

    The real question is: are Mormons welcome at Drupal? They have some interesting attitudes towards women... "Gorean" attitudes?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday March 27 2017, @02:25PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday March 27 2017, @02:25PM (#484618) Journal

    Side note: there appears to be 3.3 million Muslims [wikipedia.org] in the U.S., and maybe 6.5+ million Mormons [wikipedia.org] in the U.S. (with more Mormons living outside the U.S. than in).

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  • (Score: 2) by melikamp on Monday March 27 2017, @10:47PM

    by melikamp (1886) on Monday March 27 2017, @10:47PM (#484922) Journal
    Hehehe, they shouldn't be, right? Almost every major Jewish/Christian/Muslim denomination explicitly teaches that women are inferior to men in some ways, usually with respect to reproduction, leadership, and the freedom to decide what to do with their own bodies. I am not sure about the other two, but most Christians are actually required, as a matter of faith, to profess their values, eliminating the need for locating specific incidents. It would (and now likely will) require a lot of trumpery and mental gymnastics to explain why Christians are welcome to be Drupal developers, while Goreans are not.