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by mnicole 4824 days ago
But that's kind of the point; she knew what she was doing and that's exactly why she did it, she just hoped that in mislabeling it a women's issue, people would be empathetic to the fact that she was shaming someone that couldn't possibly set the record straight before the internet started hacking away at him. You can't just wrap anything with a feminist bow and expect people to say "Yeah, totally justifiable to shame that nameless guy in his company t-shirt that didn't actually do anything sexist in front of thousands of people." To add insult to injury, her self-made claims of being Joan of Arc and her out-of-touch legion of supporters humiliated the guy further into needlessly apologizing more in one post than she has in a week after he lost his job over it.

Starting wars on Twitter doesn't make you a crusader, it makes you no better than most of the people insulting your willingness to use your celebrity against everyday people just trying to enjoy a conference they were there to help support, all because you couldn't just say "Come on, guys."

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Can you give the url of the post where he apologizes? I wasn't able to find it, I'm just reading through some of the drama now out of curiousity