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Re:SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? by canttestthis on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:26PM (#5416303)
SendGrid is in a lose-lose situation. Either they keep Richards, deal with the DDOS (which has crippled their mail server), and deal with disgruntled male devs who've sworn to never use their service, or they fire Richards, get good PR from their client base (the male devs who had previously sworn to never use SendGrid), get that DDOS off their back, and deal with some negative PR from the 'feminists in tech' group.

The choice is pretty obvious here.

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Re:SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? by blhack on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:10PM (#5416849)
Uhh, not so fast there. All of the feminists I've talked to so far are absolutely furious with Adria Richards on this one.

She's set back "women in tech" pretty far.

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Re:SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? by chadscira on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:25PM (#5417021)
from what i have witnessed the majority of women and men agree that this was the wrong way to go about things.
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Re:SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? by smirksirlot on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:29PM (#5416354)
There are also male devs who agree with Adria.
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Re:SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? by Smudge on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:35PM (#5416430)
And female devs who disagree with Adria.
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Re:SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? by animesh on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:41PM (#5417221)
Because of these female devs who disagreed with Adria, I learnt about the difference between feminists-for-feminism and feminists-for-equality.
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Re:SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? by canttestthis on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:30PM (#5416363)
They seem to be in the minority.
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Re:SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? by WalterSear on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:02PM (#5416761)
They seem not to know all the facts involved.

From the same conference:

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425

The company she is envangelising for thinks that a visual joke about photocopying your genitals is apropriate for their jobs pages.

http://i.imgur.com/uWc8P39.png

Actions must be judged in relation to the society in which they occur.

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Re:SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? by pekk on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:29PM (#5416349)
Which is such a pity, because it only reinforces the 'tech world systematically suppresses women' meme. There was no win to be had after this.

I guess this is how we iron out what the Code of Conduct stuff really means, hopefully we learn from it.

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Re:SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? by jrajav on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:38PM (#5416463)
> it only reinforces the 'tech world systematically suppresses women' meme.

No it doesn't. It actually reduces it. She is being treated as a complete equal here, in being called out and held accountable for her actions. It would be a setback if she were protected purely because she was "speaking out" about sexism.

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