BTW, if you're wondering "how did this person get into this mindset in the first place?" then that would be a good question.
I've never been personally accused of anything like this.
But... I've looked at past incidents both in the public light and privately among friends and worried that I might have inadvertently screwed up.
For example, the whole PyCon dongle joke incident. This is a case where a couple of guys were being immature and made some sexual joke about dongles. A woman in front of them overheard it, snapped their picture, posted it on Twitter, and they got fired (at least one posted an apology IIRC). Could I have made a dongle joke at a social event in my early 20s? You bet I could have! Esp. because, as an introvert programmer, these kind of events were a great place for me to socialize (vs bars, clubs, etc).
I've witnessed people get called out for much much less. I just don't ever want to be on that side of the table.
I've never been personally accused of anything like this.
But... I've looked at past incidents both in the public light and privately among friends and worried that I might have inadvertently screwed up.
For example, the whole PyCon dongle joke incident. This is a case where a couple of guys were being immature and made some sexual joke about dongles. A woman in front of them overheard it, snapped their picture, posted it on Twitter, and they got fired (at least one posted an apology IIRC). Could I have made a dongle joke at a social event in my early 20s? You bet I could have! Esp. because, as an introvert programmer, these kind of events were a great place for me to socialize (vs bars, clubs, etc).
I've witnessed people get called out for much much less. I just don't ever want to be on that side of the table.