"PyCon Incident": the tragedy caused by a joke

In the past two days, the annual Python programming language Conference PyCon is being held in Santa Clara, California. However, it is not the contents of the Conference that triggered waves on Hacker News and Reddit, but a trigger on PyCon. It is now named "PyCon event" by a joke ".

Adria Richard is a developer promoter. Her job is to participate in various developer conferences, so that developers can better understand her company's products. This PyCon is the fifth Developer Conference she attended since March. Unfortunately, at the Opening Ceremony of PyCon, the two men sitting behind Adria intentionally or unintentionally made some unpleasant things about Adria while chatting and joking with each other.

The first comment that makes Adria unhappy is: "I wocould fork that guy's repo. "If you have used version control software such as Github, you should know that" repo "refers to the code repository, "fork" is a new code branch from the original code repository. However, fork also has the meaning of a fork, which can also be used as a verb, that is, the meaning of "inserting. The second sentence is "big dongles", which makes Adria uncomfortable, that is, the words that trigger her to enter the "San nvwa" status Adria blog. "Dongle" mainly refers to the Interface Converter or USB plug-in. For example, Apple has many dongles. Why does this sentence trigger Adria? The word "Dongle" has a strange pronunciation. the first sound in the American saying has the meaning of male genital organs, and it also rhymes with "dangle/hanging", so it is always suspected of having a low level of taste.

Adria turned to take a photo with a smartphone, exposed two men on Twitter, and then escalated the entire incident to gender discrimination, they say they have created a hostile environment for women in PyCon. She had to do so to "Women in the next generation of technology will not continue to be victims. The tweet was on fire immediately, and one of the men's companies had no choice but to have fired them.

After the incident, Most netizens, including many female netizens, thought Adria too much. Although the ghost joke between two men is not professional in PyCon, there is no need to upgrade to this level. Netizens who know the man who has been fired by squid also said that he is not a man-dominated man in his life, and that three children have lost their jobs. The family's five members are not very optimistic about the economic situation.

For the time being, I will not mention whether my female in the United States has changed from the initial women's liberation and equality to the current revenge against men. What else can we see from this incident? Today, with social media everywhere, every person with Weibo accounts and smartphones can more or less combine judges, juries, and criminal row users. How can we avoid "PyCon events? Maybe "1984" has arrived, and we may not be the "Big Brother" but the one who monitors and judges every move?