If public figures can sue for being mocked, then late night shows and comedians will be out of business immediately.

...can I trust a graph with no citation that can’t even spell Worldwide right?

Don’t feel bad, the documentation they were talking about is because people have been confused by exactly that same thing. I was at first glance, as well, and most 1-star reviews are people who don’t completely understand how the messaging system works and didn’t bother to try to understand it before complaining.

Here is the problem: the Kinja system of blogs now has no central hub with which to report on breaking news. It is important to have one.

I....nope, I’m done. You’re just going to wave the rape flag and ignore the context. You’re too dumb to understand.

Could be. Based on context though, it reads as someone losing their shit over a perceived slight.

Speaking as a woman in Tech, yes, there are obvious issues with her being the only woman in that huge dept. My dept had 68 employees with only 3 women until just recently. And the the comments that were reported — like telling a guy he was on his man period — were childish and sexist.

I WAS nothing. No one mentioned rape. They mentioned a meme in response to the word “intruder”. She escalated from there no matter how much they appologized and discontinued immediately even though they did not intend what she thought.

“We also don’t know that it’s professional and cordial. The fact that the guy thought it was ok to make the comment in the first place is a red flag, and the vehemence of his apology is another red flag, in my view.”

Giving in to and coddling people who can’t handle day to day life is not “progress.”

How many times does one need to apologize for doing literally nothing wrong in order for it to be acceptable for you?

Of course this is not the whole story. I don’t care where you work, you don’t get a month off for PTSD over an office chat.

I’d normally agree with you, but I looked—like, read and reread this article—and, for the life of me, could not find the rape joke to which this woman so vehemently and obstreperously objected. There’s a very real difference between making a rape joke and referencing a piece of pop culture which itself references…

Is it really debatable? The whole incident is laid out in front of us in chat. Are we going to start forbidding employees from making pop culture references? Can two adults no longer have a watercooler chat about a new album/movie/TV show because it has some offensive language or topics in it? (which they aren’t…

As the only straight white guy on a team of twenty people that works in a federal office of predominately black people, I’ve adapted. It’s a lean-in scenario.

I’m actually surprised you don’t agree. She voiced her objection and it was heard. The person she was talking to apologized, said it would never happen again, and she kept going. She kept going, saying nothing was being done, but it had already been resolved. She was the one not being reasonable, and they gave her a 1…

Anyone who continues to escalate a reference to a popular internet meme after what appears to be a thoughtful and sincere apology has no place in an office.

Meh, I have a CS Degree.. Those numbers sound about right for my school (30:1) Male/Female. You cant complain about a disparity in a workplace if its a engineering team, and women for the most part, dont move into those areas.

Thing is, the song they referenced doesnt even advocate or glamourize rape. The guy is saying that that community wont take it anymore and that theyre out to catch the guy. So it isnt insensitive, or even very inappropriate except that the guys were reminded of it from the alerts.

I seriously can’t tell if this article is satire. The woman “Danielle” sounds like a complete narcissist who absolutely refuses to accept a sincere apology multiple times, climbs leaps and bounds above the chain of command to the CEO of the company, gets a month paid leave, and comes back expecting what exactly? Did…