Of course physical threats and misogynic slurs just show that we are not where we should be and there are a lot of sexist jerks in our industry. The problem is

Of course physical threats and misogynic slurs just show that we are not where we should be and there are a lot of sexist jerks in our industry. The problem is that with overreacting to some tasteless but pretty harmless joke she started the vicious circle of jerkiness. Sexist assholes felt their world view validated and in turn validate her out of line action by making her a martyr with their immature reactions. Thank goodness this is just the cyberspace. The same dynamic at work can be witnessed in places where it Leeds to riots and deaths. I would not want to work at SendGrid (I contemplated applying last week) as long as Adria does not see the error of her actions, it would make me feel uncomfortable. However I would love to see everyone threatening or slurring Adria over this incident be fired. They deserve it (as opposed to the guy who was fired over this)