| To non-US people: In USA, we have a special sub-type of "office lady", which is the "marketer / enthusiast" twitter troll. The issue is, in other countries, office ladies are happy to just dress professionally and do their clerical work. In USA, we have self-esteem bubbles, an education system, a political culture that create a factory of women like this. Basically, office ladies who act like bulls, get enabled by nice-meaning people, then bite off more than they can chew. Also in USA, understand that our english isn't to be taken literally; it infers complicated politically-charged emotions. Americans react very harshly and nit-pick blunt truths, our public discourse is not one of reflection, clarification or debate, but projecting emotion at an idea we don't feel reaffirms our view of the world. These people are a tiny sliver of our society, but since we in USA are good people, we tend to give them benefit of the doubt. Because of the abuse by this type of women in the workplace, some Americans are associating women in distress with people like this. The boy who cried wolf. People like this can really hurt things for actual victims of discrimination who do their job. |
You could make similar claims about any cult personality. Anyone in a typical low-to-mid-level corporate job who has more social capital in the external world (twitter, etc.) than social capital inside the company.