The incident at PyCon:
Conversation interloper becomes offended on behalf of non-present female children by the contents of a conversation that she was interloping. PyCon staff of course will be sycophantic with upset guests because they hate bad press.
The PyCon incident was a moment of incalculable oversensitivity and probably should just be forgotten when considering the spectrum for which you hope to draw a line on.
PyCon staff of course will be sycophantic with upset
guests because they hate bad press.
All the PyCon staff did was talk to the developer in question, mention that the comments had offended someone, and left it there. That's pretty much exactly what I would expect them to do. That was confirmed by the developer in question:
There were plenty of overreactions in that case; Adria Richards for choosing to publicly shame rather than either talk privately with the developers in question or simply bring it to the PyCon organizers' attention, Play Haven for choosing to fire him over such a minor incident rather than simply giving him a warning, SendGrid for choosing to fire Adria rather than try to work with her to try and bring her behavior more into line with acceptable public relations, and a large number of people on the internet for going way beyond the boundaries of civil behavior in harassing people on both sides of the debate.
But among all of those over-reactions, from all accounts, the PyCon organizers behaved eminently reasonably.
Sorry, my bad: the line was supposed to divide between those point, not to join them.
Thanks for the comment! I fully agree that these to events are totally different (and that was kind of my point, -to separate between victims of real harassment and professional victims.)
The PyCon incident was a moment of incalculable oversensitivity and probably should just be forgotten when considering the spectrum for which you hope to draw a line on.