content: I should not have read as much of that thread as I did.  I'm fuming over here.  That there exists a person who can't tell the difference between the personal and the profession, or who refuses to separate them and demands that their identity play a role in their contribution to a technical project, is not a huge surprise.  It's a phase through which a lot of people go before they figure out that nobody gives a shit, so long as the work gets done. What is shocking to me is that there were so many of them!  And all of them with the same cockamamie view that feels > reals, where, in this case, reals is actual contribution to the project.  I don't even understand what it means to say, "I don't feel welcome in this project because someone has an opinion."  I just...  my fucking toucan, guys.  God damn it.