Another of the perpetually and professionally offended, entitled, and unable to deal with the harsh edges of the world, instead insisting all the furniture be made out of Nerf foam. So amazingly tired of these people.
Woman at a tech conference, where a couple guys in her general vicinity were making some, admittedly juvenile, penis jokes. In her world, any reference to a penis within earshot, even when not directed at her, even in an adolescent euphemism, is "harassment." But having overheard a private conversation that involved her in no way, she leapt into action! Instead of, you know, saying something to them, like a grown ass adult, she instead takes a picture of the "offenders" and tweets it to the world, demanding the someone come and rescue her and her pristine ears. Taking the photo in violation of the terms of the conference, btw.
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost | Amanda Blum: "Adria Richards was an attendee at PyCon, a tech conference, as part of her job as a developer evangelist at Sendgrid, a tech company that manages emails. She took offense to a conversation two men, also developers for a company called Play Haven, were having behind her during the conference, in which they referenced “dongles” and “forking”. Both of these are tech terms, they were construed to be used sexually on Adria’s part. Without ever mentioning her offense to the men, she took their picture, posted it to twitter and asked PyCon to do something about it."
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost | Amanda Blum: "Play Haven fired one of the developers. Then the internet blew up."
Daily Dot | How a "big dongle" joke brought out the worst of the Internet: "My friends and I had decided forking someone's repo is a new form of flattery (the highest form being implementation) and we were excited about one of the presenters projects; a friend said "I would fork that guys repo" The sexual context was applied by Adria, and not us. My second comment is this, Adria has an audience and is a successful person of the media. Just check out her web page linked in her twitter account, her hard work and social activism speaks for itself. With that great power and reach comes responsibility. As a result of the picture she took I was let go from my job today. Which sucks because I have 3 kids and I really liked that job. She gave me no warning, she smiled while she snapped the pic and sealed my fate. Let this serve as a message to everyone, our actions and words, big or small, can have a serious impact."
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost | Amanda Blum: "On her own blog, she states “it only takes three words: ‘That’s not cool‘”, which I agree with. She should have said them to the developers in question. If she was that uncomfortable doing so in a full room, she could have contacted PyCon officials privately, there were certainly channels to do so. Its important to note Adria’s entire job was conversing with developers. There were multiple steps she could have taken before she once again dropped a public bomb on twitter and her blog. In her own take on the situation, Adria claims to have considered many things like the size of the room and the audience. All she had to consider was “what outcome am I looking for?”. If the outcome is “change the way these men are speaking” she’d have taken a different route. If “make as big a deal of this as humanly possible with no thought to consequence” was her outcome, she chose right."
For all the negative attention and controversy she brought about, she was fired from her job. Karma, motherfucker.
And, of course, like all the professionally offended, it's okay for her to make dick jokes, because she's a goddamned special and unique snowflake.
Donglegate / Adria Richards | Know Your Meme: "On March 21st, a Redditor on /r/Geek[18] pointed out a tweet Richards made on March 14th[19] (shown below) making a joke about a friend stuffing socks into his crotch region in response to him getting a pat-down by TSA agents, intending to point out her hypocrisy. "
God, I fucking hate people sometimes.
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