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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.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27 2017, @04:48PM (4 children)
WTF? Would it kill you to use a car analogy so the rest of us can understand what you're talking about?
(Score: 5, Funny) by bradley13 on Monday March 27 2017, @06:58PM (3 children)
"Would it kill you to use a car analogy so the rest of us can understand what you're talking about?"
A car analogy? Sure, I can do that for you.
Think about the cars people drive. Some people own sedans: plain, practical, and comfortable. Other people own race cars: fast, hot, but maybe a bit tricky to drive. Still others have trucks, maybe because they like to go offroad, get a bit dirty.
No matter what kind of car you drive, you leave it in the parking lot when you get to work. After all, your fellow employees really wouldn't appreciate you driving through the cubicle farm to get to your desk.
In this case, though, it's the opposite: Your fellow employees just have to know what kind of car you drive. If they want to find that out, it's hard to prevent them from following you to the parking lot, even if it isn't any of their business.
So: you drive an unusual car. I dunno, maybe a Mini. Some fruitcake in your office doesn't like Minis, and campaigns to get you fires. Unfortunately, your boss overcompensates for his size issues by driving a Hummer, and figures that you driving a Mini means...well, anyway, you get fired.
There. A car analogy.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27 2017, @07:41PM (2 children)
Um, I was hoping for the car's seat belts to represent some of the BDSM elements of his post.
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Monday March 27 2017, @07:49PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:10AM
and some people like to kick the tires.
Eh? Eh?
Does that make daddy horny? Yeah... you know it. Yeah, daddy LIKES a little kicking now and then.
Yeah!.......
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