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Might as well title it "Woman game-dev and meant-well co-worker lose their jobs over immature 'mansplaining' Twitter fight turned political." The chain of even
by drasticmeasures 8y ago
Might as well title it "Woman game-dev and meant-well co-worker lose their jobs over immature 'mansplaining' Twitter fight turned political."
The chain of events:
1. A woman game dev posts something work-related. Innocuous enough so far.
2. Some guy on Twitter annoyingly tells her how to do her job better.
3. The game dev overreacts, humiliates the guy and turns it political. This was unprofessional and stupid.
4. Said guy on Twitter overreacts as well. Oh boy. Stupid, but he has nothing to lose but his time and dignity.
5. As things get uglier, a co-worker of hers decides it's a good idea to risk his career and join in the now politically charged discussion. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't go well for him.
6. In a perfect storm of stupidity and immaturity from all sides, it snowballs on Twitter. Woman game devs get people on Twitter SO MAD.
7. The game company fires her and her co-worker as damage control. They were justified to do this, since they acted unprofessionally, but this turned out to be a PR disaster for them. No way to win. That's what they get for associating with fools.
8. The media smells blood in the water like the sharks they are. It's a national political issue now. And yet, it's such a stupid, pointless fight that made 2 people lose their jobs over something so frivolous as "mansplaining".
I have no comment. Why get depressed when you can just point and laugh?