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In reply to the discussion: Donglegate, and why we don't have more women in tech [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)and posting it on the internet was "the right thing to do"?
No, it wasn't. This was a private conversation that she felt entitled to insert herself in the middle of. This was not a "microaggression" against her, because she wasn't even party to their conversation. They weren't talking to her, they weren't on the stage. The "aggression" was eavesdropping on some shit that wasn't being said to her. ...and "no one cares about the fired python developer"? That's right- this is someone with kids who LOST THEIR JOB because some shitwit with a history of using her "social justice warrior" hat as an excuse for an obvious inability to get along with other human beings, couldn't simply accept that maybe someone else's private conversation wasn't her business.
And yes, now, she has "bravely challenged the Patriarchy"! and people are pissed and, this being the internet, it would appear some people have reacted very badly. Which is not acceptable, either.
But in doing so, they're giving JOAN OF ARC OF THE DONGLES exactly what she wanted all along, i.e. status as some grand martyr on the pyre of some great cause.
Except this ISN'T a great cause, it's a fucking dongle joke, a private dongle joke between two people -neither of whom was her- that DIDN'T OPPRESS ANYONE.
NO, NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT.
So JOAN OF ARC OF THE DONGLES will now be able to -invariably- parlay this into some grand status as a figurehead for all the people who think that all their problems in life usher forth from the wellspring of other people telling jokes -to each other- that they don't like. She will be fine, she'll be more than fine, she'll be a friggin' hero to some. Clearly, she already is.
Which is too bad, because people who've actually had to deal with her crap in the past have made it clear she's not a hero, just a fairly insufferable human being.