<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy</a><p>This sort of thing always turns out well.
Public Open Source Developer Blacklist, major version 4, minor version 2, revision 6:<p>Entry #846: Guy McGee. Offense: Rejecting a commit that consisted of nothing but changing two gendered pronouns. Notes: Vehement sexist, may be dangerous. Projects: Works on GenericWebStartup.<p>-----------------<p>Yeah, I can see how this could quickly devolve. Even if the initial intentions are benevolent, if someone truly committed something as serious as sexual assault, they would be assigned into an already existing sex offenders' registry. On the other hand, "dismissiveness towards someone in a marginalized group" is something very vague and can be abused easily by people harboring personal vendettas.<p>The end result? People self-censoring on an unprecedented level.
It's all just about wanting power. Such a list would be a nifty device.<p>Edit (there was one upvote before I wrote this): Another issue: could such a list enable people to sue for getting a job, on the grounds that they had been discriminated against for being on the list?<p>Actually one reason I am opposed to feminism is that they seem to reject the notion that I should be able to decide who I like or not by myself (and it's not that I dislike people because of their gender or race - it's just a basic principle that I want to be in power of my own mind, thank you very much). Now they turn that on it's head - of course, not liking people is OK, if it's the feminists who do the not liking.<p>Edit 2: another thing, she should read some books by Dan Ariely. Turns out the "rational theory of crime" (claiming people commit crimes because they are unlikely to be caught or punished) does not explain things very well. Iirc people commit crimes because they can rationalize that they are still good people if they do so, for example they might feel they somehow deserve it, they see others doing it so they feel entitled to it, too, stuff like that.