1. 'skeptical that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.’ stallman's own
archives 2006-mar-jun I note that children are incapable of consenting.
That’s what the age of consent means.
2. 'end censorship of “child pornography”’. Stallman's archives
2012-jul-oct.html Notice use of “quotes” to down play what is actually being
requested.
3. 'gentle expressions of attraction’ Stallman's archives 2012-jul-oct.html
Condoning a variant of the wolf-whistle. Unless one’s talking to one’s lover,
‘gentle invitations for sex’ by a stranger is grooming (be it child or of-age).
4. Defends someone charged with ‘"sexual assault" on a "child" after a
session with a sex worker of age 16.’ stallman's archives 2018-jul-oct Notice
the quoting here, implying the child is not a child. ‘The article refers to
the sex worker as a "child", but that is not so. Elsewhere it has been published
that she is 16 years old. That is late adolescence, not childhood.’ No, they are
a child, that’s what the ages of majority and consent mean.
5. The ‘St Ignatius’ ‘EMACS virgins’ non-joke. ‘The commenter writes about
seeing the routine when she was only 15, and how RMS singled her out several
times during that performance:
He actually pointed to me in the back and proclaimed, into the mic, "A
GIRL!" causing the audience to turn and look. Mortifying. Then he proceeded to
gesture toward me every time he referred to "EMACS Virgins." (I cannot believe
that he is still doing the same talk 10+ years later.)’
No wonder women want nothing to do with him.
6. A business card that is completely repelling image on oreilly
7. He knows those cards are inappropriate. He broke the code of conduct he
helped author. wiredferret's twitter feed.
8. I understand he’s tried to circumvent such codes of conduct by asking
women to meet him outside of the conference venue. _sagesharp_'s twitter feed.
9. He doesn’t acknowledge the few women he has worked with ‘I don’t have
any experience working with women in programming projects; I don’t think that
any volunteered to work on Emacs or GCC.’ Completely ignoring Sandra Loosemore,
who is a coauthor, with him, of the Glibc manual. Sandra was involved with LISP
standardization, so I would be surprised if he was unaware of her involvement
there. As you well know, she has worked significantly on GCC, GCC has several
other women contributors, but too few for complacency.
10. ‘My first interaction with RMS was at a hacker con at 19. He asked my
name, I gave it, whether I went to MIT (I had an MIT shirt on), and after
confirmation I did, asked me on a date. I said no. That was our entire
conversation.’ corbett's twitter feed. This is but one of many reports of
utterly inappropriate social interactions.
This also ignores that GCC seems to remain relevant despite Stallman rather than because of him.
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