The project banner depicting a damsel in distress on the railway tracks is going to make some people twitch. I'd avoid that distraction by picking something gender neutral. My 2c.
I'm not offended in the slightest. Except by your misuse of the apostrophe. I agree that nobody was hurt in "it is making." Note that this is my idea of fun, and you don't have to be offended by it.
The purpose of my comment was to point out that gender charged images are going to draw attention in the tech industry, and that is worth avoiding. I made no commentary that suggested the image was not fun, or was offensive. You made those extrapolations all by yourself. Someone out there will make a very similar mistake to yours, by extrapolating a nonexistent gender message in the logo of this project.
That's where the real time wasting starts. My advice to the project maintainer is to skip all that bullshit by picking something neutral. I genuinely wish this was not the kind of stuff we have to worry about, but I have at least one friend whose industry reputation was needlessly tarnished by people who didn't see the same joke he did.
The only time wasted is the complaining about a photo that is obvious to the intended audience. You are specifically nitpicking gender for no justifiable reason.
Please explain: how is it fun exactly? Do you enjoy the image of a bound woman about to be hit by a train? Does your girlfriend / wife / mother find this image "fun"?
It is a reference to Taylor Swift combined with Ruby on Rails. That sort of makes sense. I assume they wanted to combine rails and Taylor swift somehow and this seems like on easy way of doing it.
I reacted a bit like you, but given that this only makes sense with Taylor Swift, I figured okay, whatever no need to moralize over this one.
Parent comment is just trying to be helpful, and people are down voting it. The comment points to a legitimate concern so ... like all advice, take it or leave it, but I think it would be gracious to say thanks rather than pile on.
Also you really can't legally use the image of a performer without their permission, if you care abut such things.
Stop wasting people's time, let them focus on productive aspects of the project.