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So in a nutshell: It was sexist and offensive but her reaction was unprofessional. As you wrote, "you just snap." Unfortunately, just snapping is a firing of
by tgrass 14y ago
So in a nutshell:
It was sexist and offensive but her reaction was unprofessional.
As you wrote, "you just snap."
Unfortunately, just snapping is a firing offense. If I have a bad day, and I yell at my boss, I suffer the consequences.
The shame of this situation is that the problems of the industry's sexism will be ignored because of her (perhaps momentary) lack of professionalism.
- shardling 14y ago>The shame of this situation is that the problems of the industry's sexism will be ignored because of her (perhaps momentary) lack of professionalism. If it's ignored, it's because people look very hard for reasons to ignore it. It's not even necessarily conscious; by deciding that there's no problem, you don't have to to feel guilty about not doing anything about it. Our brains are really good at finding reasons to opt for inaction. :) (The idea/meme that somehow each and every woman has to be a saint to move gender relations forward is pretty pathetic, btw.)
- rdtsc 14y agoActually in this case she did have enough time to apologize. It wasn't really as immediate as yelling at the boss. She issued a general "I hope your employers would have worked with you on this" kind of non-apology-but-I-in-PR-and-had-to-say-something statement response on HN. After a while she did have the opportunity to just say "I was super tired, I made a bad decision, I am sorry about the public post, I will take it down, blah blah...".