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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: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Monday March 27 2017, @03:28PM
This is what I don't understand in western culture.
Presumably you're from outside it. That's cool.
Something outsiders don't understand is in west we have a super strong tradition of exoteric fake meaning vs esoteric real meaning. From an exoteric perspective the Drupal project is about writing buggy security exploit filled web frontend code. From an esoteric perspective its a social club for a specific political/religious group.
Also in the west there's this fair play thing where if you're open to the general public or for the general public, like, I donno, the public library, you're assumed to be very fair and non-discriminatory, but if you're a private group like a church or political party its assumed you're discriminatory and thats seen as OK.
Lots of noise gets generated in the west by people fighting over the two categorizations above. Its just our weird way.