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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: 1) by pTamok on Monday March 27 2017, @03:10PM (4 children)

    by pTamok (3042) on Monday March 27 2017, @03:10PM (#484634)

    Emphasis altered slightly because we have no underline.

    Who is this 'w̲e̲', kemosabe? ;-)

    *Yes, I cheated with Unicode.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Monday March 27 2017, @03:13PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Monday March 27 2017, @03:13PM (#484639) Journal

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    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday March 27 2017, @03:48PM (2 children)

      by mhajicek (51) on Monday March 27 2017, @03:48PM (#484657)

      Oh look, rectangles.

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      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 27 2017, @09:22PM (1 child)

        by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday March 27 2017, @09:22PM (#484888) Homepage
        Oh, look, the unicode consortium has confused different fonts for different characters. (The prior post was simply a sentence in gothic[*] script.) However, they've also confused crappy ( http://fatphil.org/1/poo.html - don't bother going there, it's probably just a big rectangle) clip-art libraries for different characters too. It really is time we stopped giving these people any credibility at all. Your standard is bad, and you should feel bad. (Note that the "gun" clipart does not specify a direction, which means that you might send "Sigh... [cop] [shoots] [black man] again!" on you device, but what your recipient gets to read is "Sigh... [cop] [shot by] [black man] again!" (you can blame Apple clipart designers for "thinking different" on that one).)

        [* as humans understand "gothic", not how typographers understand "gothic", which is the exact opposite]
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