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One thing to note is that it only takes one obnoxious person to ruin it for all the other well-informed and well-behaved people in any given room/server, becaus
by AndyKelley 15y ago
One thing to note is that it only takes one obnoxious person to ruin it for all the other well-informed and well-behaved people in any given room/server, because good behavior, by definition, does not draw attention to itself.
- jodrellblank 15y agoWe don't know he was even an obnoxious person (see also, the Actor-Observer bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_bias ), we only have her boyfriend's third party account of the interaction. Other options: - What she said was stupid and noobish, and he replied bluntly - rudely but not sexistly. - What happened was misinterpreted as sexist because the interpreter is her boyfriend and jumps to her defense easily. - The man in the comic book store interpreted her as being mocking and hostile and retorted in a similar fashion, when she didn't mean it that way. - The man in the comic book store intended his comment to be a mocking imitation of a sexist, thinking he was being witty, but was taken as being literal. - The shop manager agreed with the complaining customer because he was complaining and not because he was right. - The man in comic store is normally nice and was temporarily more sexist than he usually is for some dull and specific reason, like he saw a very-near-miss in the carpark by a female driver.
- AndyKelley 15y agoI think your comment is much stronger if you take out the last one.