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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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @07:39AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @07:39AM (#485064)

    Done feeling smug? Now, address the statements.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:25PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:25PM (#485266)

    I'll respond for her point by point:

            *Because the "patriarchy* chews up and spits out most of our boys and men too.*

    And feminism helps so much! Yeah right. Understand that men are nothing if they do not contribute to society in a meaningful way, that is and always will be the way of man.
    YOU'RE DUMB AND DON'T LISTEN / HAVE READING COMPREHENSION

            Do you notice who it is who's starting wars? Men.

    Hahaha, please, you think women are incapable of starting one? War is merely an extension to enforce policy.
    YOU'RE DUMB AND DON'T READ HISTORY

            Who mostly dies in those wars? Soldier-wise, men.

    Yes, look at all the women signing up to die in a bloody trench somewhere. Look at all the women who want to die in a burning tank when an AP round penetrates the firing chamber. Look at all the women lining up to board the boat to a cold death at sea.
    Look at the women given a choice not to die horribly by the patriarchy.
    EXACTLY THE POINT DUMB DUMB, MEN ARE PRIMARILY THE FIRST VICTIMS OF WAR. THEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN LEFT ON THEIR OWN.

            Who is it that's made nearly all the laws in this country, including the utterly shitty ones that discriminate based on race and money? Men

    There were no female legislators, ever since the written history of man.
    DUMB DUMB NEEDS TO STUDY STATISTICS BETTER

            Who is it who suffers most of the ill effects of these laws? Men, especially poor men and black men?

    It's as if women are more insulated from this terrible fate by simply marrying upwards
    POINT STILL STANDS, MEN SUFFER TOO DUMMY

            What is the difference between the ones starting wars and the soldiers dying in them? The ones making the evil laws and the ones suffering for it? Money and power.

    Sounds like someone who only has a cursory study of history. Understand this, Might makes Right, if you don't, someone else will.
    YOU'RE STILL BEING AN ABSOLUTE DUMMY HARHAR

            To me, feminism is one particularly important branch of humanism, and it's not one I let get in the way of that basic humanism.

    You feminists are all the same, only vying for more power for yourselves. Doesn't matter 1st wave to 4th wave, its all a power grab with weaponized empathy, always has been and always will be.
    YOU'RE A DUMMY AND NOW AN IDIOT! WEAPONIZED EMPATHY? RETURN YOUR BRAIN, IS DEFECTIVE

            What happened to you was unequivocally *wrong,* absolutely wrong, and the women who did this to you have made this entire stupid damn battle of the sexes that much worse for that much longer because of it. If acknowledging this makes me a "bad feminist," then so be it.

    Yes, yes you are bad. Please purge all of it. Men and women are not equal and never will be, men would be women too if they could be pregnant and give birth.
    SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE HAS SOME SERIOUS IDENTITY ISSUES... MIGHT WANNA LOOK INTO THAT BEFORE YOUR DUMMY BRAINS DOES YOU IN

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:04AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:04AM (#485592)

      So you don't have anything to refute with, bye Felicia.