Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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

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.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 27 2017, @09:04PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 27 2017, @09:04PM (#484871) Journal

    What I wonder is: why, in the age of "employment at will" clauses, did Drupal give any reason for dismissal? The top two explanations I can think of are: A) they're seeking attention from the ensuing outrage, and B) they're idiots. Note, these are not mutually exclusive options.

    Because externally imposed rules aren't the only constraints. For example, consider the case of Stalin's reign over the USSR. He was sufficiently in control that he could have offed people without explanation. But by going through show-trials and similar theater, his regime gave ideological cover to its supporters and increased the level of control over society. Mikhail wasn't a hapless chump who got executed by random lot to scare the rest of us. He was a counterrevolutionary with sympathies to various western bad guys. With that trivial amount of spin, everything is made right for the true believer.