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What's the story here?

• ben336 14y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410515
• canttestthis 14y ago
  This is a good summary: http://www.dailydot.com/society/pycon-dongle-joke-misogyny-sexism-adria-richards/ http://www.dailydot.com/society/pycon-dongle-joke-misogyny-s...
• xutopia 14y ago
  Short story (from what I gathered): she took a picture of two guys saying they were making sexist remarks. Some of the remarks were silly but some of them were plainly made up by Adria Richards. One of the people in the picture lost their job over it and then the internet came to their defence claiming it wasn't just exaggeration but fabrication. Adria Richard's employer then decides to end their relationship with her.
  • pekk 14y ago
    It is an overreaction to say anything was "plainly made up by Adria Richards." She did, I think, misconstrue comments about forking. But there was a little room for misconstrual. The problem isn't that Adria Richards lied (which makes this sound like a supposedly-typical 'woman lies about being raped situation'). The problem is that she overreacted and then chose to act self-righteously instead of de-escalating.
    • protomyth 14y ago
      "misconstrue" becomes "made up" when you announce it to a crowd at large. At some point, confirmation was the polite thing to do, but we have gotten over that as a society.