Adria Richards as a character seems like she had a rough past and that has painted the adult she has become[1]: > Have you ever had an altercation at school

Adria Richards as a character seems like she had a rough past and that has painted the adult she has become[1]: > Have you ever had an altercation at school and you could feel the hairs rise > up on your back?” she asked me. > “You felt fear?” I asked. > “Danger,” she said. “Clearly my body was telling me, ‘You are unsafe.’” > Which was why, she said, she “slowly stood up, rotated from my hips, and took > three photos.” She tweeted one, “with a very brief summary of what they said. > Then I sent another tweet describing my location. Right? And then the third > tweet was the [conference's] code of conduct.” > “You talked about danger," I said. "What were you imagining might...?" > “Have you ever heard that thing, men are afraid that women will laugh at them > and women are afraid that men will kill them?” she said. > I told Adria that people might consider that an overblown thing to say. She > had, after all, been in the middle of a tech conference with 800 bystanders. > “Sure,” Adria replied. “And those people would probably be white and they > would probably be male.” While she might think that it's reasonable to feel that her life is in danger because she overheard a crass/sexist joke (not directed at her) in a room filled with 800 people that happened to mostly be white/male, I think that most people don't feel that way. [1] http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/books/7933/exclusive-extract-from-jon-ronson-book-so-youve-been-publicly-shamed/ http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/books/7933/exclusive-extrac...