This kind of behavior is unfortunately representative, not only of a number of other FLOSS developers, but of a very large part of the population.
People tend to minimize what rape is, they tend to argue that victims are lying (although only a very marginal minority is lying), they tend to minimize the amount of rape that’s going on in our society. All categories of people tend to do that: this includes women, this even includes victims themselves (as Ted fails to point out, they fail to recognize their own story as rape).
In a recent trial here in France, several men recognized guilty of gang rape for several months have been sentenced by a popular jury to a suspended sentence of 3 years in jail. This jury thinks like Ted. Society thinks like Ted.
Not an isolated case
People tend to minimize what rape is, they tend to argue that victims are lying (although only a very marginal minority is lying), they tend to minimize the amount of rape that’s going on in our society. All categories of people tend to do that: this includes women, this even includes victims themselves (as Ted fails to point out, they fail to recognize their own story as rape).
In a recent trial here in France, several men recognized guilty of gang rape for several months have been sentenced by a popular jury to a suspended sentence of 3 years in jail. This jury thinks like Ted. Society thinks like Ted.