There's a lot of gender insensitivity and macho attitudes in software in general.
Ruby attracts flamboyant, outspoken and bombastic personalities.
These two things collide to make rubyists look more sexist as a group than other developers.
For the record, I'm a rubyist, and think Aimonetti's presentation was titled offensively. Dr. Nic's tweet was also pretty fucked up.
Hanson's comment wasn't so bad, the man respectfully said he liked breasts on his private twitter account. I think that has to be the least controversial statement ever, unless you're an overly PC whack job. That would be offensive if he said it during a presentation at rails conf, but on a private twitter account talking about your personal opinions is completely fine.
So, we have 2 rubyists out of god knows how many acting like jackasses. That's really no reason to slander the whole community.
Ruby attracts flamboyant, outspoken and bombastic personalities.
These two things collide to make rubyists look more sexist as a group than other developers.
For the record, I'm a rubyist, and think Aimonetti's presentation was titled offensively. Dr. Nic's tweet was also pretty fucked up.
Hanson's comment wasn't so bad, the man respectfully said he liked breasts on his private twitter account. I think that has to be the least controversial statement ever, unless you're an overly PC whack job. That would be offensive if he said it during a presentation at rails conf, but on a private twitter account talking about your personal opinions is completely fine.
So, we have 2 rubyists out of god knows how many acting like jackasses. That's really no reason to slander the whole community.