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Don’t cut and run.”
But Herring said Malkin is in a minority.“There’s a whole bunch of women who are being intimidated,” she said.
They include academics, professional programmers and other women normally unafraid to speak their minds.
Saying your colleagues “just need thicker skin” sounds a little brutal under the circumstances, and that’s not what Michelle said.
“Expressing sympathy” for the victim and urging her to keep It doesn’t minimize the threat or Sierra’s reaction to it; the threats are outrageous and shouldn’t have to be tolerated by anyone.Unless, of course, you’re conservative.
Then no one cares.
That’s when, apparently, you just need to grow thicker skin.
And then the other line–
“But [Indiana University professor] Herring said Malkin is in a minority”.
Racist!
No, seriously, though, how is she in a minority?
Herring says there is a whole group of women being harassed.
Michelle, speaking from firsthand knowledge, agrees.
I’m not sure if this is imprecise writing, or if they’re setting her up as a hardass/conservative foil to the mainstream response.
In this case I actually suspect the former–that the piece was written under the impression that there was more disagreement between the Malkin response to harassment and the mainstream (or at least Herring) than there actually was, an...
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