Background
from Nick Sieger and
here.
I was there and I saw Matt's presentation. The relevant portion of his presentation was good (CouchDB). However, the porn references were disturbing and made me wonder how the rest of the audience felt at that time -- especially the
handful of
women who attended. There were definitely some
DHH types in there that liked his style and the porn references, but there were definitely people disturbed by it. I'm one of them.
I'm not going to spend too much time hashing out why it was a bad idea... that's obvious. I just want it to be known that there are a lot of people in the Ruby and Rails community that don't think like DHH. While I can respect his
stance on this topic, I can't say it's very helpful to anyone when he advertises it. It's terrible enough that there's a large gender inequality in our profession. Incidents like this make it worse.
With that said, I hope that we can all move on soon and try to make this community more accepting to women.
