When posting on the Ada Initiative a while ago, I wrote that people who cave in to feminist groups are responsible for creating a chilling, authoritarian environment.
Every company, every organization and every community that submits to feminist demands should be held accountable for making the world a little less free.
So, it was no surprise to me when Adria Richards, a feminist attendee at PyCon in San Francisco, emboldened by the organization?s adoption of the Ada Initiative?s authoritarian feminist policy on speech, inappropriately tweeted a photo of a couple guys who made an innocuous joke about code. Her objection was so silly, so infantile and so petty that most of us would laugh at her for caring about the joke. But it turned out not to be very funny, because a father of three was fired for it.
This is bad enough, but the Ada Initiative gals who wrote up the policy that encouraged Adria Richards have been in the habit of physically threatening people at conferences ? in writing! They are thugs, plain and simple. Getting men fired can only be considered a triumph from their perspective.
The most obvious villains here are Adria Richards and Andrew Yang, the owner of Playhaven who fired his employee for, essentially, nothing. But behind the scenes are people who are equally as culpable. First, the strange women behind the Ada Initiative, including Valerie Aurora, a vicious woman with serious daddy issues that appear to have left her with a pathological hatred of men in general. And next, Jesse Noller, who chairs Pycon. Mr. Noller ? in his words ? argued ?vociferously? for a code of conduct based on a template provided by a group that hands out threats at conferences:
By now, if you?re linked in to current Python / Python Software Foundation News you know that as of November 21, 2012 the PSF now requires that all conferences it sponsors, or provides grants to (and there are many), have a code of conduct in place. The exact wording of the reslution the PSF board ratified is this:
RESOLVED, that the PSF will only sponsor conferences that have or agree to create and publish a Code of Conduct/Anti Harassment guide for their conference. A basic template to work from has been generated by the Ada Initiative at http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy
Before I go much further; I?m going to state unequivocally that I am the one responsible. I proposed, argued for it, put it on the agenda and argued for it vociferously during our meeting. However, the board approved it overwhelmingly as a body with a single abstention.
Additionally, as you read this, do not assume anything about my personal politics, political leanings, etc. You would be wrong ? trust me on that one. If you are assuming that a horrible event at a PSF / Python event triggered this, you are also wrong.
How ironic it is that a horrible event occurred after the short-sighted Mr. Noller implemented a feminist policy. Ironic, perhaps, but entirely predictable.
When you let feminists write the rules, you get something like our current family law regime, where men can only lose. It happens every time. In schools, in courtrooms, in companies, and now at tech conferences.
Jesse Noller was foolish to let wolves into the pasture. He should be held responsible for his lapse in judgment. Noller is to blame for a man taking the fall ? it?s on his head.
As for the bleating sheep who voted for his proposal, I hope they are aware of the mess they created. The best way to deal with feminists is to not deal with them. Next best is to ask them to leave. The Ada Initiative should have been banned from conferences from the moment they began issuing physical threats, but instead they were given the opportunity to write the rules. How could that possibly go wrong?
Men in our culture have to learn to say no ? to tell them to take a hike. It?s surprisingly easy when you get used to the idea, and you wouldn?t believe how much more pleasant things can be without them around.
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