[canweriotnow]

Agreed.

When was the last time attempting to publicly humiliate someone convinced them to turn from their unenlightened ways?

Any desire to make the developer community more diverse and open is admirable. But responding to inappropriate jokes in this manner isn't just overreaching.

It's repaying asshattery with asshattery.

I'm not defending the behavior of the guys in question here. And I'd like to go all white knight and support OP 100%, but I can't seem to shake this damned sense of perspective.

What would she have done if she had witnessed deliberate sexual harassment? Gone the extra mile and used Instagram? Or gone over the organizers heads and demand Guido ban those three guys from even using Python anymore?

People make bad, unfunny jokes. Call them out if they're offensive. But this is just ridiculous.