Forking and Dongle Jokes Don't Belong At Tech Conferences

"What many of you don’t know is that wasn’t the first time that day I had to address this issue around harassment and gender."

A few guys making idiotic jokes amongst themselves about forking and dongle size is now considered harassment? I can understand they were probably being annoying, but I'm having trouble seeing this as harassment.

The pycon people are aiming to build a conference where women don't have to deal with this stuff at all. It's a lofty goal, and I appreciate them for setting a high standard.

Excusing little comments creates a culture where women have to put up with innuendo throughout the conference. I saw these people removed from the room, and it was done quite appropriately. (I did not hear anything directly.)

I am missing something here. I get that someone could be offended by these comments, but what does it have to do with being a woman? I know females who would giggle at such jokes and males who would feel uncomfortable.

I feel like the person here being the most sexist is the author, for insinuating that there's something inherent in her gender that makes "forking" jokes offensive to her. I would welcome an explanation of what I'm not seeing.

Way to be passive aggressive about it.

Link to the other HN thread on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391667

If the comments are to be believed someone's already lost their job over this.