I don't understand something. How can she find a dongle joke in a private chat offensive, while make a phallic joke herself a day later? Sure, she can say that

I don't understand something. How can she find a dongle joke in a private chat offensive, while make a phallic joke herself a day later? Sure, she can say that they broke the conference's rules; but people break such rules all the time. Grab an extra pastry? Borrow a colleague's badge? Sneak out some extra food? Who hasn't done that? This just seems bizarre, and the price paid by the guy who got fired seems to be too much for what was, in essence, a private conversation. I can understand (to some extent) him being excoriated for making such a joke with her; but he was chatting with a buddy, albeit louder than intended. Sometimes I wish people would just calm down a little, and fight the _real_ problems. And I'll be the first to raise my voice against sexism and discrimination, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.