There is an amazingly intolerant environment on twitter: simply reposting Shanley rants (something she did routinely to others) -- will get you shut down, apparently by the back-channel of supporters who want to cover up her routinely abusive, polarizing language. It's a little bit frightening.
I think that regardless of how critical the article is (or isn't) -- her reactions already suggest that her views on tech culture are histrionic distortions of reality, where any disagreement is equated with violence: even a fellow woman journalist is castigated for contributing to 'harassment and violence' for simply writing a profile that was probably, on balance, originally leaning positive.
I think that regardless of how critical the article is (or isn't) -- her reactions already suggest that her views on tech culture are histrionic distortions of reality, where any disagreement is equated with violence: even a fellow woman journalist is castigated for contributing to 'harassment and violence' for simply writing a profile that was probably, on balance, originally leaning positive.
The key word here is histrionic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder