A Dongle Joke!!

[catsnknots]

A Dongle Joke That Spiraled Way Out Of Control

In an age of blogs, tweets, Hacker News, Reddit and Anonymous, an off-the-cuff joke can spin wildly out of control.

At least it appears that’s what happened with PyCon this week when a sexual joke led to some very public firings, a virulent debate about women in technology, another virulent debate about public shaming, and now, a DDOS attack.

So here’s what happened:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spiraled-way-out-of-control/

[catsnknots]

This is why we should not publicly shame anyone like she did.. 

I don't think she thought it through... 

anyway... don't we all joke about a dongle???? 

[freakiness]

This is why we should not publicly shame anyone like she did.. 

I don't think she thought it through... 

anyway... don't we all joke about a dongle???? 

No, we don't always joke about dongles.

Did Adria claim to have taken the pic and tweeted it because it was while a young woman was on stage at the time?

There were so many stories about this last week I can't recall whether it was this incident or not.

[catsnknots]

I didn't say we always joke I said don't we all?? 

and yes it is a generalised comment.. I am sure not 100% of us have laughed at a dongle joke... but I know plenty that have... 

Was there a reason to publicly humiliate this man? 

He made a silly joke.. did he say it was directed at the woman on stage? 

I have no idea.. I have only just read the article and a few connected links... 

[bright.ton42]

I think his response is dignified and makes a lot of sense.

It seems pretty heavy-handed that a man with 3 kids to support

loses his job over that.  

I don't know the full story and didn't read all the links so maybe there's more

to this than I picked up.   

[freakiness]

I didn't say we always joke I said don't we all?? 

and yes it is a generalised comment.. I am sure not 100% of us have laughed at a dongle joke... but I know plenty that have... 

Was there a reason to publicly humiliate this man? 

He made a silly joke.. did he say it was directed at the woman on stage? 

I have no idea.. I have only just read the article and a few connected links... 

You're right. It is an amazing case of what can get out of hand entirely and cost people their jobs.