She was employed by Sendgrid at that time, so since they were paying her salary, it was obvious to her that she was supported by Sendgrid. I suspect the realis

She was employed by Sendgrid at that time, so since they were paying her salary, it was obvious to her that she was supported by Sendgrid. I suspect the realisation that they were employing a time bomb as their developer evangelist caused them to rethink the value of employing her in that role. This whole incident could have been averted if Adria had followed her own advice: rather than stir up foment on the Internet (the "thermonuclear option") she could simply have turned to the guys and said, "this is not cool." Adria tries to explain that what was going on in her head was an unfortunate sequence of triggers: she's had a traumatic history, so it's to be expected that some things will "get her goat" and trigger her into irrational behaviour. In this case she apparently believed that telling these men that the jokes were not appreciated would have ended up with her being exposed to ridicule on the Internet. So she took the obvious (to her) course of action which was a thermonuclear preemptive strike.