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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: 2) by c0lo on Monday March 27 2017, @04:33PM (2 children)
I try to remember how many female characters Tolkien's LotR has. One? Maybe two? And both of the elves race?
Aren't orcs always demonized in the novel? I mean, look no female orc; and so many orcs and all of them bad? - this can't be!
Must be a fantasy novel and a shitty one, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday March 27 2017, @05:19PM (1 child)
Off the top of my head:
- Arwen, elf, the girl with the golden hair, evening star
- Galadriel, elf, the morning star
- Éowyn, human, a tomboy who wants to ride with the Rohirrim (also killed the Witch-King of Angmar, yay for fictitious strong women!)
- Shelob, great spider in Mordor (does a giant spider count?)
- Goldberry (only mentioned maybe?), Tom Bombadil's wife
- (ok, had to look her up) Rose Cotton, Samwise Gamgee's wife after the Scourging of the Shire
Orcs (or at least the Fighting Uruk-Hai) are grown so only have a male gender. Presumably there are orcs out there that reproduce sexually? Maybe if I ever get around to reading The Silmarillion…. I'm also not counting all kinds of Hobbits if you peruse the Shire family trees.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday March 27 2017, @06:00PM
Three, indeed. I'd count only compatible characters who contribute to the plot. Shelob sex is inconsequential to the story, Goldberry and Rose Cotton do not influence the story line.
> I'm also not counting all kinds of Hobbits if you peruse the Shire family trees
Until you get to the Silmarillion, a list of hobbits [wikipedia.org] with many female names.
> Orcs (or at least the Fighting Uruk-Hai) are grown so only have a male gender.
Mmmm... some orcs have fathers - Bolg is the son of Azog [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford