[hackerspaces] It's now figured out. Yes it is.

[Ben Brown]

Sad. Get help.

Ben

On 2017-08-02 1:52 PM, \0xDynamite wrote:
> Okay brothers and sisters (the vocal minority withstanding),
>
> I think I've figured out what's happening.  The movement to create a
> creative space for hackers, makers, and bakers is getting co-opted by
> Queer Politics, specifically MALE queer politics (fakers?).
>
> Nothing against people who can't change themselves, but boinking the
> backdoor is turning this movement into a BOWEL movement.
>
> I mean if the GQT community needs a place especially for them they have:
>
> The Independent Order of Oddfellows Club
> The Catholic Seaman's Club
> NAMBLA
>
> Not to mention they are generally ADULT, AMERICAN, WHITE, MALES who
> have all of the privileges of such, such as writing their own marriage
> contracts, consensual activities OUTSIDE the hackerspace (regardless
> of what laws against sodomy might say), and generally don't often know
> what the binary digit for 1 is.
>
> The fact is, by getting involved with this political issue they are
> alienating the general population who DOESN'T WANT TO KNOW.  It's
> hurting the movement and affecting the progress of getting things
> done.  It's puerile and irrelevant.
>
> Anyone ready to have a conversation on THAT?  Because after seeing the
> behavior with the wiki, I think sabotage is the end-result.
> Hackerspaces have enough problems getting off the ground without
> raising problems with the dominant paradigm.
>
> \0xd
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