> How can it be a fireable offense to make a penis joke in a room where a few people may overhear it
You should take that up with the people who did the firing. The only thing that happened at PyCon was that the organizers told them to knock it off and they did.
We're talking about two different things. I made no mention of PyCon rules because the sexual joke was clearly against their rules. What I'm talking about is Adria's double standard for what is offensive and what is not. So lets try this again:
"How can it be not cool to make a penis joke in a room where a few people may overhear it, while it being cool to tweet the penis joke to the whole room?"
You should take that up with the people who did the firing. The only thing that happened at PyCon was that the organizers told them to knock it off and they did.