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programmersbeingdicks:

BritRuby:

The Ruby community has been battling with issues of race and gender equality. We at Brit Ruby were well aware of this fundamental and important issue. This was one of the reasons why we encouraged everyone to submit a speaker proposal. Sadly, BritRuby was used as the arena to air…

programmersbeingdicks:

A protracted Twitter argument about an embarrassingly sexist video that also serves as a convenient tour of some of the most common entitled-male-douchebag arguments you’ll find in tech (paraphrased):

• Why the aggressive tone?
• The women involved were consenting!
• Geek women love us!

…as well as some more exotic and bizarre ones:

• I bought you a drink once! (what?)
• I have a family! (what?)

…plus this titanic dick move:

• I wonder what your employer would think of this. [CCs her employer’s Twitter account]

Update: Coda Hale is the hero of the fucking hour… whoops, they’ve taken it down.

Update the 2nd: Here’s a snapshot we pulled from Google’s cache!

Update the 3rd: And here’s a bullshit non-apology.