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The reason it has come to this is that Adria Richards never expressed even a minor amount of remorse for costing the other person his job. She never re-evaluat

The reason it has come to this is that Adria Richards never expressed even a minor amount of remorse for costing the other person his job. She never re-evaluated her actions and acknowledged that she did something wrong. She had every right to be offended and A) confront them or B) Report them to convention staff. She reported them to convention staff and that was the right thing to do. Unfortunately she also decided to publicly shame them and that resulted in a knee-jerk firing. If Adria had expressed any amount of remorse vs. proclaiming herself a "hero" multiple times in the situation then the whole thing might have been perceived differently. I'd like to think that everyone will learn something from this situation but the world is really divided into those who can accept responsibility and those who always find someone else to blame when things don't go as they expected.

WalterSear 14y ago
She also made a penis joke of herself on twitter at the same conference, about intentional making a TSA agents uncomfortable due the presentation of sexuality. https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425 https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425 And the employer she represents considers an off colour 'photocopying your genitals' visual joke as apropriate for intern jobs page. http://i.imgur.com/uWc8P39.png http://i.imgur.com/uWc8P39.png These things have to be judged in relation to the environment in which they are made.
wotwot 14y ago
"She reported them to convention staff and that was the right thing to do." She reported them to convention staff and that was an option available to her more as a technicality than anything else. I doubt that those guys were being unreasonably obnoxious. The right thing to do was inform and educate and apply some degree of proportional response. This woman didn't want to create change, she wanted to guarantee hits to her blog by destroying someone else without due cause.

WalterSear 14y ago

She also made a penis joke of herself on twitter at the same conference, about intentional making a TSA agents uncomfortable due the presentation of sexuality. https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425 https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425 And the employer she represents considers an off colour 'photocopying your genitals' visual joke as apropriate for intern jobs page. http://i.imgur.com/uWc8P39.png http://i.imgur.com/uWc8P39.png These things have to be judged in relation to the environment in which they are made.

wotwot 14y ago

"She reported them to convention staff and that was the right thing to do." She reported them to convention staff and that was an option available to her more as a technicality than anything else. I doubt that those guys were being unreasonably obnoxious. The right thing to do was inform and educate and apply some degree of proportional response. This woman didn't want to create change, she wanted to guarantee hits to her blog by destroying someone else without due cause.