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Livestream engineer apologizes after getting fired for misogynistic tweets

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Its great to know that Shanley doesn't think name calling is appropriate or productive. I shudder to think about what she'd think of something like this: https://medium.com/about-work/finding-out-youre-a-sexist-mis... edit: more name calling that she would certainly condemn: https://twitter.com/ryan/status/474791621100199936

It's actually a pretty good blog post, the title is sort-of underscoring the central point:

"Yes, I have slut-shamed, body-policed, name-called, bad-joked, appropriated, derailed, co-opted, silenced, objectified, stereotyped, trivialized, slurred, punished, isolated, insulted, benefited, and stayed silent with the worst of them. A highlight reel of my life profiting uncritically and even participating in the systems of misogyny, classism, racism, cis-normativity and homophobia that oppress my friends, my family, my fellow humans would not endear anyone to me, least of all myself.

It fees horrible to talk about. But I am because we all must realize how complete, how intersecting, how deeply fucked up the system is, and the role we play in it."

Re: Livestream engineer apologizes after getting fired for misogynistic tweets

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It seems I'm missing the context here that (almost?) everyone else seems to have. What actually happened?

a man called a woman a ct on the internet and lost his job. Actually I don't know what the rules are here so I will just censor the word

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It seems I'm missing the context here that (almost?) everyone else seems to have. What actually happened?

a man called a woman a c t on the internet and lost his job. Actually I don't know what the rules are here so I will just censor the word

I don't care if you spell out the word if you're going to cite it (punctuation would be nice though ;) - but this is clearly not an explanation of what happened.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

a man called a woman a c t on the internet and lost his job. Actually I don't know what the rules are here so I will just censor the word

I don't care if you spell out the word if you're going to cite it (punctuation would be nice though ;) - but this is clearly not an explanation of what happened.

You are right I left out a bit. The woman took a screenshot of the abuse and tweeted it to his employers asking them were they happy to employ someone like that.

That really is the gist of it.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care if you spell out the word if you're going to cite it (punctuation would be nice though ;) - but this is clearly not an explanation of what happened.

You are right I left out a bit. The woman took a screenshot of the abuse and tweeted it to his employers asking them were they happy to employ someone like that. That really is the gist of it.

Is it even legal to fire a person for a single tweet (when tweeting is not their job)?

Re: Livestream engineer apologizes after getting fired for misogynistic tweets

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Wow... looking through Shanley's twitter history is scary. She certainly has some rude things to say about a lot people. I wouldn't ever call a person the "c" word.. but I can see how a person that was inclined to use that word would send it in her direction. She is really not a very nice person on twitter. It is too bad someone got sucked into her tar pit and then got fired. :(

Re: Livestream engineer apologizes after getting fired for misogynistic tweets

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I honestly hope that he sues his employer. With the Adria Richards incident, her work was as a developer evangelist; her opinions reflected those of the company. However; in this guys case they don't. Sue them both, and have the last laugh. I don't think that her Gittip fund will cover the results.

Re: Livestream engineer apologizes after getting fired for misogynistic tweets

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Shanley is a cunt and any "man" who takes her seriously and cowers on twitter by firing someone over her laughable bullshit is an eager-to-please bitch.

What I find hilarious is her ranting and raving constantly about "tone policing", then turning around and doing the ultimate tone policing (god, what a dipshit phrase) by getting a guy fired for saying something she doesn't like.

She is a cunt, he stated a simple, objective, provable fact.

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