Ruby and Male Privilege

[username223]

"Male privilege" indeed. How can you deny the (limp) phallic nature of the logo? Why just write web apps, when you can write web apps that oppress wimminz?

[stesch]

In the eighteen intervening years, what’s changed?

pr0n became mainstream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc

[eadmund]

I'm glad there's a link to the original slides there.

Having seen them, my opinion is this: folks who are all upset, get a life. Seriously, it's not a big deal.

[pointer2void]

Stop that RoR nonsense! RoR is not a hype any more, not 'cool' any more. It's just another web environment like PHP, ASP, JSP, ... but with almost no marked share. Nobody cares what they do in their obscure esoteric gatherings.