Re:Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life
by altcognito on Thursday March 05, 2015 @07:57AM
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Handling it personally makes a lot of sense. I have children, I don't teach them to immediately run to authority the minute they are offended. You should be able to confront/request somebody behave appropriately without them "giving back a mouthful of abuse". And therein lies the key, if they give you back a mouthful of abuse, then take it higher up. There are absolutely situations where going directly to conf organizers and staff is appropriate, but this doesn't seem like one to me.
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I also have children, and I'm not sure how it's relevant.
Of course you SHOULD be able to tell someone you're offended without the risk of backlash, but it's always a risk. Clearly Adria decided to handle that risk in a different way than you or I would have.
Re:Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life
by altcognito on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:04PM
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It's relevant because talking directly to people and not tattle-telling is part of growing up, and it's unfortunate this wasn't done.
It doesn't mean she isn't grown up though as this is just one non-representative tiny slice of two people's entire lives. Honestly, I didn't get a chance to update my message, but another question (seen here and elsewhere) is probably more important: "Why isn't the story about her life being threatened over this?" That's the more ridiculous part of this story.