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Uber Ex-engineer Who Alleged Sexism Retains Lawyer (usatoday.com)
Marco della Cava and Jessica Guynn, writing for USA Today: The former Uber engineer whose critical blog post has stirred a storm of controversy for the ride-hailing giant has retained an attorney, charging that her former employer is blaming her for a rash of app deletions. Susan Fowler, whose Feb. 19 essay detailed myriad examples of sexism, tweeted Thursday that "Uber names/blames me for account deletes, and has a different law firm - not Holders (sic) - investigating me."
Right... if she's just retaining a lawyer now after posting that shows some lack of planning on her part. Regardless of the truth of her claims, she had to figure that she would be charged with defamation based on the heavy claims she's made against a aggressive company.
Why? She wasn't suing them and her claims were verifiable, the logical response from Uber was ignore or apologize. A smear campaign, if that is what's happening, would be a really stupid response on their part.
It should be noted from the article that it's not even clear that someone is going after her, or if Uber is that someone. I wouldn't be surprised if some MRAs weren't taking it upon themselves to make an example of her.
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Listen and believing really worked for the Rolling Stone re: mattress girls now verifiably false claims.
Victim blaming happens far less than false claims. Society likes to champion causes, even when they are manufactured.
Victim blaming happens far less than false claims
I don't know, I feel like it happens every single time one of these stories comes up. It's important to figure out the truth in these situations, but the rest of us who are not involved can calm down, step back, and wait until the truth actually comes out instead of trying to blame.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
It depends on how you phrase it. If you say, "She might be lying, I won't believe her until evidence comes up" then yeah, that's bad. If you say something like, "What an awful situation. I feel so sorry for her, and everyone involved. I will wait until the evidence comes out before judging" then you're good.
If you lead with sympathy, you're good. If you lead with accusations, then you're bad.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
>Victim blaming happens far less than false claims.
This is the most demonstrably false statement I've read in quite a while.
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You want proof? Go read any slashdot post relating to sexual harassment. Every single one has plenty of victim blaming to go around meanwhile only a relatively small percentage were later proven as false.
Read any sexual harassment case on foxnews.com or Yahoo.
Victim blaming happens all the time, its a usual method to try and silence someone.
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Scepticism is not an accusation.
Way to miss the point AC, way to miss the point.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Yeah the fact that nobody has specified exactly clearly detracts more from her argument than yours here. Good job playing the part of the self important white guy, &inb4 you claim you're a minority to avoid scrutiny on your boring shitty self important argument.
The reason MRAs are not respected is that, as a whole group their points are generally extremely self serving and short sighted, and they are culturally focused more on breaking things down than building anything. Everything is a reactive complaint about how someone else might be getting a better deal in *something, somewhere*
Oh and... when people point out that this is the image that has been generated by the actions of those calling themselves MRAs, they get EMOTIONALLY HURT and try to claim they've been discriminated against unfairly. Gosh i wish that i could justify the idea that it was unfair to face the direct consequences of my own actions.
Jeez you fricken little children. Maybe deal with these problems and you'll get respect. But then the movement wouldn't need to exist but for support in child custody issues, which is what it was before it was co-opted by butthurt whiners.
Replace MRA with feminist. Your idiotic reply carries no weight.