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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 Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 28 2017, @12:58AM
You're tilting at a straw feminist if you're trying to say I think like that. I find the collective guilt idea reprehensible, and don't personally apply it. There's a post below that may help explain my thinking a bit. But, I don't want any rights over you that aren't already there (and reciprocal) under plain, simple humanism.
To be clear, anyone using "butbut MUH FEMINISM" to justify some sort of violence done to you or your body or your sexual self is not only evil, they're hypocritical as hell on top of it, because the entire *point* of intersectionality in feminism is that a hell of a lot of problems women have are in part problems along other axes of discrimination such as race, class, geographic location, and yes, gender identity/expression. There is a multiplier effect too; a woman who is also black and living in a Muslim country is going to have more problems, both related to her being female and not, than a white, agnostic/secular woman in the Northeast. Those awful fucking TERFs who harmed you in Michigan are a prime example, and they ought to damn well *know better!*
I believe I have enough evidence that trans people such as yourself are not simply deluded or making it up; there was a study on brain scans showing MtF brains looked somewhere between the two sexes (statistically speaking; brains are a mosaic and there's no stereotypical male or female brain) and FtM brains looked rather male. This is real. You are valid. And this is another axis in the intersectionality bundle; gender nonconformers are hideously abused, partly because it ticks about half a dozen "violent disgust" boxes in the minds of RWNJs and their massive, overactive amygdalas.
In short, I'm *on your bloody side,* but like all other humans, I don't like being mischaracterized. If you think it's unfair for the TERFs and the venomous radicals to say all men are evil by nature, don't then turn around and do the opposite.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...