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Perhaps he's referring to "Donglegate": Two men talking among themselves make a joke about a dongle, a woman overhears and is offended, makes a post about it, a
by simonsarris 7y ago
Perhaps he's referring to "Donglegate": Two men talking among themselves make a joke about a dongle, a woman overhears and is offended, makes a post about it, and one of the men gets fired.
(Later apparently, the woman was also fired)
The guy posted on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681
- ajross 7y agoCould be. And that was unfortunate, at the same time, we're hardly talking about being fired for one random remark. The guys were making dick jokes while seated at a public conference, loudly enough to be heard by the people around them. I mean... you get that's offensive to lots of folks, right? AND she happened to be a social media personality who made them a target of a very public shaming (i.e. she was exercising power she already held, not some magical sexual harassment dust). AND the employer overreacted. AND... it happened five years ago! It's hardly like this is an epidemic thing justifying the paranoia in the headline above.