“the company conducted an internal and external investigation into Vandermeyden’s complaints last year, and found them to be without merit. The conclusions were re-reviewed this year, the spokesperson added, and led to Vandermeyden’s firing on Monday.”

She gets flak for under-performing as an engineer when she isn’t qualified - must be sexism.

must be nice to just make up a story and base a lawsuit on it

Well in that case, she shouldn’t have gone public, but instead immediately hired an attorney. Whenever someone goes public with a suit like this, 99 times out of 100 they are seeking money by obtaining public opinion first. Historically corporations offer a quick settlement in situations like this. Only one problem,…

This. Stop jumping to conclusions so quickly people. Just because one women spoke up, doesn’t mean she is 100% truthful. She could be a complete psycho and just looking to cash in, because she was not promoted to management position fast enough. Believe it or not, people like that do exist.

need to be an engineer first. high level any thing is management but you still need the technical knowledge.

If this is correct, then her male counterparts are likely being promoted and given higher raises than her. Not because she’s being discriminated against, but because she doesn’t have the relevant degree for her position. I could easily see her feeling discriminated for that, presuming she was adequately performing in…

i’m not sure i understand how she even became an engineer in the first place with no background or technical training?

I’m not going to pretend to know whether her accusations have merit or not. That is for the courts to decide, not some random internet commenter. But before everyone takes to the torches and pitchforks over this, imagine Tesla’s position if the accusations are truly false. Why would a company continue to employ an…

Now, imagine for a moment, completely hypothetically speaking, that Ms. Vandermeyden is indeed trying to use harassment allegations as a way to cover bad performance or as a way to get special treatment. And that Tesla has indeed reviewed her complaints and has found them meritless.

How can a company defend against…

E X A C T L Y. And as we were all outraged by the Margot Robbie Vanity Fair profile, which was basically a long-form jerk-off, I don’t understand why people think it’s suddenly okay when it’s a woman projecting her fantasies onto a man. It isn’t.

I’m saying this joke was inappropriate, and he was well within his rights to be offended by it. Is that a difficult concept for you to understand?

Are you fucking kidding me?

No, it’s not, because if the genders had been reversed, the focus here would have been on the inappropriateness of the joke. Because the gender dynamic is what it is, the focus of this article, and these comments is on Hills inability to “take a joke.”

This wasn’t a joke about power dynamics. This was an insult to his appearance, and he didn’t appear to have done anything to deserve it. This isn’t some sort of feminist stand she’s taking. This is just a mean-spirited “joke” at the expense of someone who was just trying to do his job. It’s inappropriate in either…

I get the idea that punching up is better than punching down. However, you’re really saying it’s okay to fat shame a dude, who is probably very insecure about his weight, by telling him he completely undesirable just because women get that kind of thing much more than men? That seems bizarre.

Maybe, but I don’t think it’s particularly appropriate to directly insult the appearance of anyone who is just trying to promote their movie. It’s shitty either way, and he did nothing to deserve it.

My mom used to make my sister and I hold hands. We would sit silently trying to crush the other’s hand the entire time. She once made us sit face to face, noses touching. Whenever she wasn’t looking I would stick my tongue out and touch some part of my sister’s face.

Yeah, no, that was inappropriate as hell. You’re interviewing someone to help promote a film, not projecting your sexual fantasies on them, or making jokes at the expense of whether or not you perceive them as sexually attractive or not. I don’t care who it is, or what gender they are. That should not have been said,…

OK, but how much would Jez be freaking out if the roles and genders had been reversed?