Uncle Bob's RailsConf 2009 keynote explicitly equated femininity with weakness & also talked about threesomes. He hasn't changed.https://twitter.com/tomstuart/status/895325639263244289 …
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Replying to @sarahmei
I remember sitting in that keynote. It was just a few months after I'd been at a local conference where a talk contained pornography.
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It's hard to describe how quickly & completely my brain went from interest & excitement & buzzing with new ideas to just...cold.
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Dark. Defensive mode. All it took was Uncle Bob's initial ridicule of feminine traits, mid-way through.
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It wasn't just a throwaway comment. It was an extended bit about how masculinity was good & strong, while femininity was bad & weak.
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Replying to @sarahmei
Suddenly I was keenly aware that I was a woman sitting in a huge room of mostly men. This was the height of RailsConf - 2000+ people.
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Replying to @sarahmei
I shut down. I went back to my hotel room. Later, I posted on my (at that point, quite new) twitter account about how terrible it was.
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Replying to @sarahmei
Twitter was heavily populated by Ruby devs in those days. We were the early adopters because that was the tech community it grew out of.
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Replying to @sarahmei
Most of the dudes reacting to Uncle Bob's talk on twitter loved it. I still hear people refer to it once in a while.
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I had so many problems with that talk, both social and technical.
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Is there video of this talk? This was before my time in ruby and i'm curious
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