Washington Post fires reporter Felicia Somnez who objected to misogynistic tweets

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Journalists are supposed to report the news, they aren't supposed to be the news. Some of the players in this drama seem to have forgotten that and now are suffering the repercussions from that lapse.

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Anonymous wrote:I hadn't seen the actual re-tweet. Thank you, Jeff!

It is in poor taste (and I disagree with it completely) but I admit that I, as a woman, smirked when I read it. Was it worth some schmuck being suspended without pay for a month? I dunno.

In many ways I think we're taking all of this too far. I mean, I'd be more upset if it was a joke about someone being fat or ugly...I don't know why but those would bother me more.

This one is lame and, these days, seems kinda true. People are so strung up and tense it seems like all I see are people with their moods ping-ponging up and down going from one extreme to another.

And then the me-too crowd moving in with everyone coming out. Like where were you back in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, etc? Huh? Where were you then when people like my cousins and our best friends were fighting against discrimination and scared to let people know that they were in a relationship with a person of the same sex. Yeah, right. Snort. You were nowhere to be found. But NOW? Now that it's hip and popular? You're all over it. Riiiiiiiiight.

Anyway the joke is lame, the re-tweet is lame, and Somnez seems like she was trying to make a name for herself and it backfired when she couldn't control her behavior. She's on fire because she lit a match and didn't think about what would happen if she kept fanning it. Too bad, so sad but Somnez's firing from WaPo is no great loss to journalism.

I agree with everything you said. It’s a joke in poor taste, but at the same time, it’s not worth losing your career over. It’s something I would’ve let go of as soon as he took it down and apologized for.

+1 Same.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, she was given several warnings to stop her behavior. She had a choice, but continued—sounds like a loose cannon.

+1 although I think she sounds like my 2 year old when he's having a temper tantrum. At this point whatever point she is trying to make is lost because of her poor behavior.

It is hard to see how she could ever be trusted as a reporter in the future and expect people to want to read what she has written because she has gone so far overboard. I know I would skip her article whenever I saw her byline simply because of her clear vitriolic and hyperbolic writings. She had a point, but when she was challenged her response vis a vis the personal attacks and clear animus made her distasteful and now her writing is irrelevant because of the clear bias.

She deserved to be fired because of her behavior and I wouldn't be surprised if she is completely unable to find employment with any legitimate news agency. She might be better off migrating over the New York Post. They are right up her alley.

The only post employee who attacked a colleague was Del Real. He attacked Somnez and she retweeted his attacks. Most of her tweets were retweeting language by the post. Del Real was not punished, Weigel suspended, and she was fired for speaking out. Stay silent ladies!

I don’t work at the Post but the optics of what they did looks terrible. Old boys club indeed.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, she was given several warnings to stop her behavior. She had a choice, but continued—sounds like a loose cannon.

+1 although I think she sounds like my 2 year old when he's having a temper tantrum. At this point whatever point she is trying to make is lost because of her poor behavior.

It is hard to see how she could ever be trusted as a reporter in the future and expect people to want to read what she has written because she has gone so far overboard. I know I would skip her article whenever I saw her byline simply because of her clear vitriolic and hyperbolic writings. She had a point, but when she was challenged her response vis a vis the personal attacks and clear animus made her distasteful and now her writing is irrelevant because of the clear bias.

She deserved to be fired because of her behavior and I wouldn't be surprised if she is completely unable to find employment with any legitimate news agency. She might be better off migrating over the New York Post. They are right up her alley.

The only post employee who attacked a colleague was Del Real. He attacked Somnez and she retweeted his attacks. Most of her tweets were retweeting language by the post. Del Real was not punished, Weigel suspended, and she was fired for speaking out. Stay silent ladies!

I don’t work at the Post but the optics of what they did looks terrible. Old boys club indeed.

Oh, get real. It was Somnez who was flipping out. I read the chain in the Post. The more she posted the more hysterical and vitriolic she got. She was a loose cannon. They're better off without her.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, she was given several warnings to stop her behavior. She had a choice, but continued—sounds like a loose cannon.

+1 although I think she sounds like my 2 year old when he's having a temper tantrum. At this point whatever point she is trying to make is lost because of her poor behavior.

It is hard to see how she could ever be trusted as a reporter in the future and expect people to want to read what she has written because she has gone so far overboard. I know I would skip her article whenever I saw her byline simply because of her clear vitriolic and hyperbolic writings. She had a point, but when she was challenged her response vis a vis the personal attacks and clear animus made her distasteful and now her writing is irrelevant because of the clear bias.

She deserved to be fired because of her behavior and I wouldn't be surprised if she is completely unable to find employment with any legitimate news agency. She might be better off migrating over the New York Post. They are right up her alley.

The only post employee who attacked a colleague was Del Real. He attacked Somnez and she retweeted his attacks. Most of her tweets were retweeting language by the post. Del Real was not punished, Weigel suspended, and she was fired for speaking out. Stay silent ladies!

I don’t work at the Post but the optics of what they did looks terrible. Old boys club indeed.

Oh, get real. It was Somnez who was flipping out. I read the chain in the Post. The more she posted the more hysterical and vitriolic she got. She was a loose cannon. They're better off without her.

Totally agree. Nothing old boys club there. Sonmez was lashing out and acting out. Definitely needed disciplinary action and I’m sure the proper steps were followed, considering her history. She’s just pissed her previous lawsuit was rejected and was looking for a target.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, she was given several warnings to stop her behavior. She had a choice, but continued—sounds like a loose cannon.

+1 although I think she sounds like my 2 year old when he's having a temper tantrum. At this point whatever point she is trying to make is lost because of her poor behavior.

It is hard to see how she could ever be trusted as a reporter in the future and expect people to want to read what she has written because she has gone so far overboard. I know I would skip her article whenever I saw her byline simply because of her clear vitriolic and hyperbolic writings. She had a point, but when she was challenged her response vis a vis the personal attacks and clear animus made her distasteful and now her writing is irrelevant because of the clear bias.

She deserved to be fired because of her behavior and I wouldn't be surprised if she is completely unable to find employment with any legitimate news agency. She might be better off migrating over the New York Post. They are right up her alley.

The only post employee who attacked a colleague was Del Real. He attacked Somnez and she retweeted his attacks. Most of her tweets were retweeting language by the post. Del Real was not punished, Weigel suspended, and she was fired for speaking out. Stay silent ladies!

I don’t work at the Post but the optics of what they did looks terrible. Old boys club indeed.

Oh, get real. It was Somnez who was flipping out. I read the chain in the Post. The more she posted the more hysterical and vitriolic she got. She was a loose cannon. They're better off without her.

Typical millennial. Lash out at people because you can't make it on your own. It didn't work well for Monica Lewinsky and it won't work well for Bye Bye Felicia.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, she was given several warnings to stop her behavior. She had a choice, but continued—sounds like a loose cannon.

+1 although I think she sounds like my 2 year old when he's having a temper tantrum. At this point whatever point she is trying to make is lost because of her poor behavior.

It is hard to see how she could ever be trusted as a reporter in the future and expect people to want to read what she has written because she has gone so far overboard. I know I would skip her article whenever I saw her byline simply because of her clear vitriolic and hyperbolic writings. She had a point, but when she was challenged her response vis a vis the personal attacks and clear animus made her distasteful and now her writing is irrelevant because of the clear bias.

She deserved to be fired because of her behavior and I wouldn't be surprised if she is completely unable to find employment with any legitimate news agency. She might be better off migrating over the New York Post. They are right up her alley.

The only post employee who attacked a colleague was Del Real. He attacked Somnez and she retweeted his attacks. Most of her tweets were retweeting language by the post. Del Real was not punished, Weigel suspended, and she was fired for speaking out. Stay silent ladies!

I don’t work at the Post but the optics of what they did looks terrible. Old boys club indeed.

Oh, get real. It was Somnez who was flipping out. I read the chain in the Post. The more she posted the more hysterical and vitriolic she got. She was a loose cannon. They're better off without her.

Typical millennial. Lash out at people because you can't make it on your own. It didn't work well for Monica Lewinsky and it won't work well for Bye Bye Felicia.

wut?

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She and Bari Weiss are opposite sides of the social media Outrage Coin. Both got tossed by their employers. Both were airing out their employers’ internal crap on social media. Both were insanely toxic to their coworkers.

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Oh, get real. It was Somnez who was flipping out. I read the chain in the Post. The more she posted the more hysterical and vitriolic she got. She was a loose cannon. They're better off without her.

Sonmez thought her crusade was so just and virtuous that the Post would never dare fire her. She was totally out of control and embarrassing. She needs to take a few months off, get some therapy, and then take her inevitable job at Atlantic or Politico or National Journal. Or she can always get a job writing about wireless spectrum, that's a beat that's always hiring.

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Oh, baloney. Del Real was very circumspect.

Somnez was fired because she couldn't control her temper. She responded guns blazing and even more of her over-the-top screaming banshee routine.

As a woman I am always disheartened when I see behavior like hers because she reinforced the negative stereotypes of woman in journalism as being rabid soap-boxers. Somnez had multiple opportunities to dial back and to put forth a cogent and cohesive statement yet she failed to do so at every opportunity. She literally screamed and kicked her way out of her own job.

The best summarization of this whole Sonmez nonsense was when someone asked her how she had time to file stories considering she spent 24/7 going scorched earth on her colleagues.

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Anonymous wrote:She acted crazy on Twitter. Coworkers shouldn’t be blasted online like that.

Um, you mean like the guy who wrote that all women are bipolar or bisexual? That guy who still has a job at the WaPo?

He got reprimanded, suspended, didn’t he? Did you want him to get fired for a stupid tweet?

You mean like she got fired for pointing out he made a stupid (misogynistic to be more accurate) tweet that insulted half of his coworkers? Collegiality my butt.

He literally didn’t make the tweet. And it was a bad dad joke that most sane people didn’t even care about.

Ok Wiegel. He shared the tweet. If I had done that in a public forum, my place of work would have fired him. And the dads I know don't talk about women in that way.

It's Weigel, not Wiegel. You work at a different place. He's not a dad.

The guy apologized, instantly, and was suspended without pay for a month. He is a good reporter who is usually goofy but not offensive on Twitter. I really don't see the possible justification for punishing him worse than this, over such a dumb thing.

I don't get why this poster is calling this a dad joke. Dad jokes are puns or corny humor. They're not insulting to half the population. Dads have daughters too.

I think maybe we are just going to disagree over how offensive the tweet was. I thought it was stupid, and offensive, but not burn it all down bad. I thought Weigel responded appropriately with his apology - and that a month's suspension without pay seemed extreme, but ok. You clearly see it as much worse than I did, and than many other people did. But there's a lot of you, too, so I have to acknowledge that as well.

I don't know. This whole thing just seemed to spiral out of control in a pretty crazy way.

I think you're used to a permissive work culture. I think many companies would have fired staff over that tweet--social media policies govern staff behavior and you're not supposed to do things publicly that make you/your employer look bad. Which is why I think it's awful that they fired the lady reporter...saying she had been criticizing other staff (i.e. making the WaPo look bad).

She was insubordinate. He wasn't. I think this is pretty clear. The workplace had devolved into chaos, and she kept making it worse - and they would never have any control whatsoever if she didn't face consequences.

I've worked places with permissive social media cultures and some without (I am freelance now but my last full time job forbade us from posting anything about politics at all on our personal social media, because we worked with a lot of lawmakers on both sides and it was thought that this could hurt our ability to do that if we expressed any thoughts about policies - that one was hard to abide during the Trump years, let me tell you).

Agree with another PP that is is the best summary of the issue, and that the Post’s actions in firing her were entirely appropriate. She gave them no choice.

I do find it bizarre that some posters are minimizing Weigel’s retweet, though. That was not a “dad joke,” nor was it “corny.” It was extremely sexist and offensive, and if you think it’s funny, you need to ask yourself why. If this is the only time Weigel has done something like this, then I think the apology plus one-month suspension without pay is an appropriate disciplinary action. But I hope the Post has put him on notice that he’ll be fired if there are subsequent tweets or retweets like this.

I agree with this.

The posters who are minimizing the tweet are actually making the Post look a lot worse, not better. They sound incredibly clueless, and defensive in a very out of touch way.

Offensive is if he said “eff women. They belong in the kitchen. They can’t think and are all dumb.”

But his tweet was a really bad dad joke, at best. That’s a stupid joke that even my mom would make during dinner, people would just moan, and it’d be forgotten.

You realize that every time you try to minimize this as a “dad joke” (which is insulting to all the good dads out there), you solidify the narrative that the Post tolerates open misogyny from men, but silences women who object to misogyny in the workplace?

What? The guy literally was suspended. Somnez wouldn’t let it go and stared publicly attacking her coworkers. And when her female boss told her to stop, she kept going.

People like you don’t even know the basic facts and just start spewing o it “misogyny” whenever you get a chance.

His “punishment” was essentially nothing. Let’s not pretend here.

Being suspended for a month without pay would be a big freaking deal in my house.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, she was given several warnings to stop her behavior. She had a choice, but continued—sounds like a loose cannon.

+1 although I think she sounds like my 2 year old when he's having a temper tantrum. At this point whatever point she is trying to make is lost because of her poor behavior.

It is hard to see how she could ever be trusted as a reporter in the future and expect people to want to read what she has written because she has gone so far overboard. I know I would skip her article whenever I saw her byline simply because of her clear vitriolic and hyperbolic writings. She had a point, but when she was challenged her response vis a vis the personal attacks and clear animus made her distasteful and now her writing is irrelevant because of the clear bias.

She deserved to be fired because of her behavior and I wouldn't be surprised if she is completely unable to find employment with any legitimate news agency. She might be better off migrating over the New York Post. They are right up her alley.

The only post employee who attacked a colleague was Del Real. He attacked Somnez and she retweeted his attacks. Most of her tweets were retweeting language by the post. Del Real was not punished, Weigel suspended, and she was fired for speaking out. Stay silent ladies!

I don’t work at the Post but the optics of what they did looks terrible. Old boys club indeed.

Oh, get real. It was Somnez who was flipping out. I read the chain in the Post. The more she posted the more hysterical and vitriolic she got. She was a loose cannon. They're better off without her.

So much gender bias in the way some posters are talking about Somnez. “Hysterical” “flipping out”, “loose cannon.” None of these things seem to be apples to the man who started this whole incident by tweeting that all women are either bisexual or bipolar. Let’s call him some names too-not just the woman brave enough to call him out for being a woman hater.

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Anonymous wrote:She acted crazy on Twitter. Coworkers shouldn’t be blasted online like that.

Um, you mean like the guy who wrote that all women are bipolar or bisexual? That guy who still has a job at the WaPo?

He got reprimanded, suspended, didn’t he? Did you want him to get fired for a stupid tweet?

You mean like she got fired for pointing out he made a stupid (misogynistic to be more accurate) tweet that insulted half of his coworkers? Collegiality my butt.

He literally didn’t make the tweet. And it was a bad dad joke that most sane people didn’t even care about.

Ok Wiegel. He shared the tweet. If I had done that in a public forum, my place of work would have fired him. And the dads I know don't talk about women in that way.

It's Weigel, not Wiegel. You work at a different place. He's not a dad.

The guy apologized, instantly, and was suspended without pay for a month. He is a good reporter who is usually goofy but not offensive on Twitter. I really don't see the possible justification for punishing him worse than this, over such a dumb thing.

I don't get why this poster is calling this a dad joke. Dad jokes are puns or corny humor. They're not insulting to half the population. Dads have daughters too.

I think maybe we are just going to disagree over how offensive the tweet was. I thought it was stupid, and offensive, but not burn it all down bad. I thought Weigel responded appropriately with his apology - and that a month's suspension without pay seemed extreme, but ok. You clearly see it as much worse than I did, and than many other people did. But there's a lot of you, too, so I have to acknowledge that as well.

I don't know. This whole thing just seemed to spiral out of control in a pretty crazy way.

I think you're used to a permissive work culture. I think many companies would have fired staff over that tweet--social media policies govern staff behavior and you're not supposed to do things publicly that make you/your employer look bad. Which is why I think it's awful that they fired the lady reporter...saying she had been criticizing other staff (i.e. making the WaPo look bad).

She was insubordinate. He wasn't. I think this is pretty clear. The workplace had devolved into chaos, and she kept making it worse - and they would never have any control whatsoever if she didn't face consequences.

I've worked places with permissive social media cultures and some without (I am freelance now but my last full time job forbade us from posting anything about politics at all on our personal social media, because we worked with a lot of lawmakers on both sides and it was thought that this could hurt our ability to do that if we expressed any thoughts about policies - that one was hard to abide during the Trump years, let me tell you).

Agree with another PP that is is the best summary of the issue, and that the Post’s actions in firing her were entirely appropriate. She gave them no choice.

I do find it bizarre that some posters are minimizing Weigel’s retweet, though. That was not a “dad joke,” nor was it “corny.” It was extremely sexist and offensive, and if you think it’s funny, you need to ask yourself why. If this is the only time Weigel has done something like this, then I think the apology plus one-month suspension without pay is an appropriate disciplinary action. But I hope the Post has put him on notice that he’ll be fired if there are subsequent tweets or retweets like this.

I agree with this.

The posters who are minimizing the tweet are actually making the Post look a lot worse, not better. They sound incredibly clueless, and defensive in a very out of touch way.

Offensive is if he said “eff women. They belong in the kitchen. They can’t think and are all dumb.”

But his tweet was a really bad dad joke, at best. That’s a stupid joke that even my mom would make during dinner, people would just moan, and it’d be forgotten.

You realize that every time you try to minimize this as a “dad joke” (which is insulting to all the good dads out there), you solidify the narrative that the Post tolerates open misogyny from men, but silences women who object to misogyny in the workplace?

What? The guy literally was suspended. Somnez wouldn’t let it go and stared publicly attacking her coworkers. And when her female boss told her to stop, she kept going.

People like you don’t even know the basic facts and just start spewing o it “misogyny” whenever you get a chance.

His “punishment” was essentially nothing. Let’s not pretend here.

Being suspended for a month without pay would be a big freaking deal in my house.

Being fired would be a huge freaking deal then.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, she was given several warnings to stop her behavior. She had a choice, but continued—sounds like a loose cannon.

+1 although I think she sounds like my 2 year old when he's having a temper tantrum. At this point whatever point she is trying to make is lost because of her poor behavior.

It is hard to see how she could ever be trusted as a reporter in the future and expect people to want to read what she has written because she has gone so far overboard. I know I would skip her article whenever I saw her byline simply because of her clear vitriolic and hyperbolic writings. She had a point, but when she was challenged her response vis a vis the personal attacks and clear animus made her distasteful and now her writing is irrelevant because of the clear bias.

She deserved to be fired because of her behavior and I wouldn't be surprised if she is completely unable to find employment with any legitimate news agency. She might be better off migrating over the New York Post. They are right up her alley.

The only post employee who attacked a colleague was Del Real. He attacked Somnez and she retweeted his attacks. Most of her tweets were retweeting language by the post. Del Real was not punished, Weigel suspended, and she was fired for speaking out. Stay silent ladies!

I don’t work at the Post but the optics of what they did looks terrible. Old boys club indeed.

Oh, get real. It was Somnez who was flipping out. I read the chain in the Post. The more she posted the more hysterical and vitriolic she got. She was a loose cannon. They're better off without her.

So much gender bias in the way some posters are talking about Somnez. “Hysterical” “flipping out”, “loose cannon.” None of these things seem to be apples to the man who started this whole incident by tweeting that all women are either bisexual or bipolar. Let’s call him some names too-not just the woman brave enough to call him out for being a woman hater.

“Flipping out” and “loose cannon” are applied to men as often as women. I’ll give you “hysterical,” and I don’t think that’s an appropriate description of her actions. She absolutely crossed the boundaries of professional behavior with her second tweet if not her first, and then obliterated them in the following days. It all seemed quite deliberate, and I can’t imagine what she was thinking. She must not need the income from her Post job.

As to the guy who wrote the tweet (Cam Harless), I’m sure he’d be delighted if you called him names. He’s a professional sh*t poster who appears to love baiting liberals and “Karens”. He is delighted with the controversy his tweet caused, and went on Tucker Carlson’s show to talk about it. I also don’t know what Dave Weigel was thinking by retweeting it.

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Anonymous wrote:She acted crazy on Twitter. Coworkers shouldn’t be blasted online like that.

Um, you mean like the guy who wrote that all women are bipolar or bisexual? That guy who still has a job at the WaPo?

He got reprimanded, suspended, didn’t he? Did you want him to get fired for a stupid tweet?

You mean like she got fired for pointing out he made a stupid (misogynistic to be more accurate) tweet that insulted half of his coworkers? Collegiality my butt.

He literally didn’t make the tweet. And it was a bad dad joke that most sane people didn’t even care about.

Ok Wiegel. He shared the tweet. If I had done that in a public forum, my place of work would have fired him. And the dads I know don't talk about women in that way.

It's Weigel, not Wiegel. You work at a different place. He's not a dad.

The guy apologized, instantly, and was suspended without pay for a month. He is a good reporter who is usually goofy but not offensive on Twitter. I really don't see the possible justification for punishing him worse than this, over such a dumb thing.

I don't get why this poster is calling this a dad joke. Dad jokes are puns or corny humor. They're not insulting to half the population. Dads have daughters too.

I think maybe we are just going to disagree over how offensive the tweet was. I thought it was stupid, and offensive, but not burn it all down bad. I thought Weigel responded appropriately with his apology - and that a month's suspension without pay seemed extreme, but ok. You clearly see it as much worse than I did, and than many other people did. But there's a lot of you, too, so I have to acknowledge that as well.

I don't know. This whole thing just seemed to spiral out of control in a pretty crazy way.

I think you're used to a permissive work culture. I think many companies would have fired staff over that tweet--social media policies govern staff behavior and you're not supposed to do things publicly that make you/your employer look bad. Which is why I think it's awful that they fired the lady reporter...saying she had been criticizing other staff (i.e. making the WaPo look bad).

She was insubordinate. He wasn't. I think this is pretty clear. The workplace had devolved into chaos, and she kept making it worse - and they would never have any control whatsoever if she didn't face consequences.

I've worked places with permissive social media cultures and some without (I am freelance now but my last full time job forbade us from posting anything about politics at all on our personal social media, because we worked with a lot of lawmakers on both sides and it was thought that this could hurt our ability to do that if we expressed any thoughts about policies - that one was hard to abide during the Trump years, let me tell you).

Agree with another PP that is is the best summary of the issue, and that the Post’s actions in firing her were entirely appropriate. She gave them no choice.

I do find it bizarre that some posters are minimizing Weigel’s retweet, though. That was not a “dad joke,” nor was it “corny.” It was extremely sexist and offensive, and if you think it’s funny, you need to ask yourself why. If this is the only time Weigel has done something like this, then I think the apology plus one-month suspension without pay is an appropriate disciplinary action. But I hope the Post has put him on notice that he’ll be fired if there are subsequent tweets or retweets like this.

I agree with this.

The posters who are minimizing the tweet are actually making the Post look a lot worse, not better. They sound incredibly clueless, and defensive in a very out of touch way.

Offensive is if he said “eff women. They belong in the kitchen. They can’t think and are all dumb.”

But his tweet was a really bad dad joke, at best. That’s a stupid joke that even my mom would make during dinner, people would just moan, and it’d be forgotten.

You realize that every time you try to minimize this as a “dad joke” (which is insulting to all the good dads out there), you solidify the narrative that the Post tolerates open misogyny from men, but silences women who object to misogyny in the workplace?

What? The guy literally was suspended. Somnez wouldn’t let it go and stared publicly attacking her coworkers. And when her female boss told her to stop, she kept going.

People like you don’t even know the basic facts and just start spewing o it “misogyny” whenever you get a chance.

His “punishment” was essentially nothing. Let’s not pretend here.

Being suspended for a month without pay would be a big freaking deal in my house.

Being fired would be a huge freaking deal then.

Yes and entirely out of proportion with the crime IMO