Why Ruby?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"lurker" <lurk at lurk.net> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>
>> "piotrek" <starpit at tlen.pl> wrote in message
>> news:ie8fu9$ejl$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:49:50 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> >> By the way, I couldn't stop cringing at the distasteful, male-centric
>> >> sexual jokes that the talk is peppered with. Wonder if there was any
>> >> woman in the audience, and how she might have felt. And this is not a
>> >> ghetto rant - it's the keynote of a major Ruby conference! (And I'm
>> >> definitely not a prude.) Am I alone in thinking that this is not what
>> >> our metier should evolve into?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Andrei
>> >
>> > You're definitely not. No matter how strong pressure is, I stand and
>> > fight against common acceptance for female humiliation. It's so sad
>> > to me how many think they're real men while treating women as a things
>> > they can freely abuse.
>> >
>>
>> Didja hear the one about the blonde who couldn't find her pencil?
>
> I have a bad sense of humor, but what is this if I'm trolling?

Heh. It's me being an ass :)

But seriously, I'm not flaming anyone here, and really taking a round-about 
way to point out that there's too much "inventing things to be offended 
about" going on in the world. I still haven't looked at the video, so maybe 
some of the things really were worse than the example Andrei mentioned or 
the joke I referenced above, but *if* these things are the sorts of things 
that piotrek and Andrei find "offensive to women", then I'd have to call a 
big "bullshit, this is just inventing blatant assumptions and then getting 
offended by them".