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Reading between the lines and viewing her resignation in the context of what she's had to go through in the past few months, she was harassed out of the job by
by kolbe 11y ago
Reading between the lines and viewing her resignation in the context of what she's had to go through in the past few months, she was harassed out of the job by the user base.
- return0 11y agoE. Pao and Brendan Eich are the two polar examples why the word 'harassment' has lost its meaning.
- j_baker 11y agoYou're not trying to say the two are comparable are you?
- return0 11y agoIn what way are they not?
- vruiz 11y agoObjectively? Pao was criticised for her present actions while at the job, Eich because someone pointed at his past.
- return0 11y ago... and he did a good job for years while she doesn't have much to show. What's your point? edit: i figure u re saying one was harassed more than the other?
- vruiz 11y agoI was just answering your question. Some might think that context matters. As in, what happened to Pao just comes with the job while what happened to Eich was purely personal.
- kolbe 11y agoHa. Maybe we need language to evolve the way we now have "rape" and "rape rape." I propose "harassment" and "har-fucking-rassment."
- corin_ 11y agoNot sure what circles you hang around with if you often find the need to differentiate between different levels of rape..
- jodah 11y agoFrom my reading, this wasn't about harassment. It was about missteps, many of them. Needless to say, her various apologies were not spurred by harassment.
- golergka 11y agoPart of the user base harassed her. Part of the user base raised valid concerns about her performance as CEO in a reasonable, well-argued manner. Part of the user base did both. Why do people here (in this HN thread) tend to pretend it's either one or the other? When you're speaking about a big amount of people, pretending like they all behave the same way is never a good representation of a situation.
- comrh 11y ago> Part of the user base did both. Wait, what? You can raise "reasonable" concerns while harassing someone? Harassment makes raising "valid concerns" not well-argued or reasonable.
- waterhouse 11y agoIt's possible to post a perfectly calm, sensible, well-argued comment in one place, and post a spiteful, obscenity-filled rant in another place (or possibly the same place), so, yes. If you want to get fancy, you can use two computers and click "submit" on both simultaneously, so, yes, you can, even for pedantic definitions of "while".
- golergka 11y ago> You can raise "reasonable" concerns while harassing someone? Yep. You can write two paragraphs of well-articulated critique and then write something like "this bitch should die and rot in hell" in the end.