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Comment by reitanqild | Hacker News Reader

There's more to it than that.

  1. The words were never meant for her
  2. She didn't contact him, maybe she misheard?
  3. She was, in fact, way more powerful than him (privilege)
  4. She has a history of being a professional victim
  5. -and a history of making similarly bad jokes herself, publicly

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It's an odd definition of personal privilege you have, where the privileged person suffers two years of harassment and abuse, and the person without privilege immediately returns to a lucrative career.

It's also an odd definition of professional victim, where publicly being a 'victim' results in you getting booted out of the profession.

I don't want to comment on the event itself here -- but I think that the aftermath, and the continued reaction to it, say a lot of sad things about the tech community.

> It's an odd definition of personal privilege you have,

Which is most privileged:

  * Developer evangelist vs developer-on-the-floor
  * 10 000 twitter followers vs nothing

> It's also an odd definition of professional victim, where publicly being a 'victim' results in you getting booted out of the profession.

Why she was booted from her profession was because she misused her position, -in a way that caused significant harm to the employer.

>"Why she was booted from her profession was because she misused her position," And if you take that at face-value, it's ironically, the very thing that feminists are supposedly fighting against in terms of sexism in the workplace.

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