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Re:The PyCon Incident on Friday March 22, 2013 @03:31PM (#5425088)
It's not her right to expect that something necessarily needs to be done about it.

I'm offended. Okay.....

Re:The PyCon Incident on Friday March 22, 2013 @03:28PM (#5425070)
Politically expedient faux outrage.
"She reported them to convention staff and that was the right thing to do."

She reported them to convention staff and that was an option available to her more as a technicality than anything else. I doubt that those guys were being unreasonably obnoxious. The right thing to do was inform and educate and apply some degree of proportional response. This woman didn't want to create change, she wanted to guarantee hits to her blog by destroying someone else without due cause.

She was fired for being totally clueless about the medium in which she claimed expertise. Your job is to make negative things go away quietly and to amplify the positive, not the opposite.