People are also pretty enamored lately with the idea of the perfect "Code of Conduct" for their conferences.
(Completely ignoring that local, state, and federal laws all already exist to handle all of it.)
(Completely ignoring that local, state, and federal laws all already exist to handle all of it.)
Except that they don't. If I walk around a conference saying that all the women at this event are filthy whores who should go back to the kitchen, what law am I breaking? Do you really think that's acceptable behavior at a conference?
My feeling is that codes of conduct mainly serve the salesmen and workshop providers. The thankfully defunct Ada Initiative was the worst actor, but others have stepped in.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassmen... - here is a very reasonable CoC that mostly deal with behavior that is actually law breaking.
Someone actually flagged my comment, which to me is pretty jaw dropping. This isn't a topic we can discuss? Okay.