<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Well, then an explanation is in order.<br><br>Loon is a significantly derogatory term. There are ways to discuss people with mental illness which do not carry that level of stigma.<br><br>
Similarly, someone's gender orientation probably isn't meaningful for discussion, especially not when rolled together with madness and other critically toned comments. There's nothing particularly wrong with cross dressing; that's a lifestyle, not a problem. This is particularly of interest because Ed was placed into that lifestyle by his mother, rather than through personal orientation.<br>
<br></div><div>Also of note is that I think the accusation of mental illness is probably over-stated. He was in the 1950s, when adult fetishes were considered a sign of mental illness (simple things like one now takes for granted.) By modern standards, he wouldn't even be considered particularly kinky. Remember, this was a time when the head of the FBI was terrified that people would discover he wore dresses in private, and would as a result be institutionalized or lobotomized. Things are different today.<br>
</div><div><br></div>I don't know that uri particularly made me angry, but it was fairly easy to understand as a comment that could trouble people who themselves were or had friends or family who were in these groups. We're all sort of riding out a wave of massive over-sensitivity in software engineering, to the point that an outsider can over-hear and misunderstand a joke about forking a codebase, and end up getting three people fired.<br>
</div><br></div>So let's err on the side of being considerate, until we can go back to being a community of plain spoken people?<br><br>Anyway, that's how I see it. Thanks for hearing me out, and I won't speak to the matter again.<br>
<br></div>Also, his bad movies are actually really good. They're like movies that someone was dared to make. Give them a chance. It's not like we're talking about Hammer Films here. :) If you think Plan 9 from Outer Space is the worst movie of all time, I recommend a good solid showing of Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, or other unrelated classics like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Part 3 and Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD.<br>
<div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Reini Urban <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rurban@x-ray.at" target="_blank">rurban@x-ray.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Brian Fraser <<a href="mailto:fraserbn@gmail.com">fraserbn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Uri Guttman <<a href="mailto:uri@stemsystems.com">uri@stemsystems.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">>> plan 9 is just the most famous worst film ever. it was voted that some<br>
>> years ago so it clings to that title. the director (ed wood) was a loon and<br>
>> transvestite among other things (like a bad director).<br>
><br>
> So.. apparently being a transvestite is not only a bad thing, but just as<br>
> bad as being a loon. What do you know. uri--, this is not acceptable<br>
> behavior.<br>
<br>
</div>I have no idea what you inferring here, and why you are doing it.<br>
Ed Wood was pretty well-known to be a loon (a crazy lunatic),<br>
a cross dresser (some outsiders might call his behaviour transvestite),<br>
and one of the worst movie directors all times. Well, Uwe Boll might<br>
be worse for sure.<br>
<br>
But I really cannot see how how came to understand uri's sentence as inferring.<br>
3 adjectives, without apparent connection.<br>
--<br>
Reini<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
_______________________________________________<br>
yapc mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:yapc@pm.org">yapc@pm.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:helvetica">John Haugeland</span><br><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:helvetica"><a href="http://crowdtilt.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12px;font-family:helvetica" target="_blank">Crowdtilt</a> is what I do</span><br style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:helvetica">
<span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:helvetica">Connect with me on</span> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/JohnHaugeland" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12px;font-family:helvetica" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:helvetica"></span>
<br style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:helvetica"><br style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:helvetica"><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128);font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px">Check out our </span><a href="https://www.crowdtilt.com/learn/press" style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px" target="_blank">recent press!</a><br>
</div></div>
</div>