Wrong planet error

[ anybody who’s come to this post late might want to read my next entry as well ]

Looks like it’s the time for it: having recently participated in a discussion on racism, privilege and entitlement chez perigee, and one on sexism in the programming community flocked elsewhere, a friend pointed me at the website of an upcoming ColdFusion Dev Conference.

I was sufficiently angered by the implications (on all sorts of levels) of a “FREE CFDeveloper party with entertainment in the form of a private bar, music provided by a Live DJ and Tequila slammer girls” (who I might want to “chat up” up after they gave me “free tequila shots”) that I mailed the organisers:

( a brief email exchange follows )

ETA1: remove the flockedness - on consideration, there’s nowt there I don’t want public.
ETA2: here’s ramtops‘ post on the same subject (and yes, she did mail him first :)
ETA3: pdcawley adds his comments on his blog.