Washington Post fires reporter Felicia Somnez who objected to misogynistic tweets

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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.

Except he didn't display any hysterical behavior, and she did.

Funny how only women are ever called "hysterical". I don't think calling out Dave Wiegel for saying that women are either bipolar or bisexual is "hysterical." I do think Dave Wiegel is somewhat sociopathic.

Dude, it was a joke. A re-tweet. May have even been an accidental re-tweet. Relax and move on. Raging about this makes you sound unstable.

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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.

Except he didn't display any hysterical behavior, and she did.

Funny how only women are ever called "hysterical". I don't think calling out Dave Wiegel for saying that women are either bipolar or bisexual is "hysterical." I do think Dave Wiegel is somewhat sociopathic.

Dude, it was a joke. A re-tweet. May have even been an accidental re-tweet. Relax and move on. Raging about this makes you sound unstable.

A female reporter called out a sexist joke and got fired. Not funny to me. (Also, you're trying to call many many posters unstable, and the fact that you think you're having a dialogue with one person just makes you sound dim.)

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with her being fired. But those of you who think that it was just a “dumb joke,” no big deal, the apology is enough, Weigel did nothing wrong, it is a “dad joke” (wtf), do you really trust Weigel’s reporting on women now? Do you think Weigel can fairly report on a woman who raises an assertion of sexual harassment or assault? Or about an employment dispute of unequal pay?

If so, where is your line? Last year Mike Huckaee tweeted the racist “joke” below. If a reporter had retweeted that Tweet from his or her professional account, would you be okay with it? Would you trust that reporter on any issues having to do with Asian Americans again? Where do you draw your line?

According to his Post bio, he covers "grass roots political movements." How could you trust him to cover something related to women's rights?

If you look at his bio, I wouldn't trust him to cover a high school dance.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with her being fired. But those of you who think that it was just a “dumb joke,” no big deal, the apology is enough, Weigel did nothing wrong, it is a “dad joke” (wtf), do you really trust Weigel’s reporting on women now? Do you think Weigel can fairly report on a woman who raises an assertion of sexual harassment or assault? Or about an employment dispute of unequal pay?

If so, where is your line? Last year Mike Huckaee tweeted the racist “joke” below. If a reporter had retweeted that Tweet from his or her professional account, would you be okay with it? Would you trust that reporter on any issues having to do with Asian Americans again? Where do you draw your line?

According to his Post bio, he covers "grass roots political movements." How could you trust him to cover something related to women's rights?

If you look at his bio, I wouldn't trust him to cover a high school dance.

Why would they hire him back when he had issues when they hired him 20 years ago?

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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.

Except he didn't display any hysterical behavior, and she did.

Funny how only women are ever called "hysterical". I don't think calling out Dave Wiegel for saying that women are either bipolar or bisexual is "hysterical." I do think Dave Wiegel is somewhat sociopathic.

Dude, it was a joke. A re-tweet. May have even been an accidental re-tweet. Relax and move on. Raging about this makes you sound unstable.

A female reporter called out a sexist joke and got fired. Not funny to me. (Also, you're trying to call many many posters unstable, and the fact that you think you're having a dialogue with one person just makes you sound dim.)

We’re 20 pages into this and you still don’t even know why she was fired.

She wasn’t fired for simply calling him out. She was fired because she went overboard, disrespected her colleagues, and wouldn’t stop when asked by her management.

Apples and oranges comparison.

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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.

Except he didn't display any hysterical behavior, and she did.

Funny how only women are ever called "hysterical". I don't think calling out Dave Wiegel for saying that women are either bipolar or bisexual is "hysterical." I do think Dave Wiegel is somewhat sociopathic.

Dude, it was a joke. A re-tweet. May have even been an accidental re-tweet. Relax and move on. Raging about this makes you sound unstable.

A female reporter called out a sexist joke and got fired. Not funny to me. (Also, you're trying to call many many posters unstable, and the fact that you think you're having a dialogue with one person just makes you sound dim.)

We’re 20 pages into this and you still don’t even know why she was fired.

She wasn’t fired for simply calling him out. She was fired because she went overboard, disrespected her colleagues, and wouldn’t stop when asked by her management.

Apples and oranges comparison.

+1

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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.

Except he didn't display any hysterical behavior, and she did.

Funny how only women are ever called "hysterical". I don't think calling out Dave Wiegel for saying that women are either bipolar or bisexual is "hysterical." I do think Dave Wiegel is somewhat sociopathic.

Dude, it was a joke. A re-tweet. May have even been an accidental re-tweet. Relax and move on. Raging about this makes you sound unstable.

A female reporter called out a sexist joke and got fired. Not funny to me. (Also, you're trying to call many many posters unstable, and the fact that you think you're having a dialogue with one person just makes you sound dim.)

We’re 20 pages into this and you still don’t even know why she was fired.

She wasn’t fired for simply calling him out. She was fired because she went overboard, disrespected her colleagues, and wouldn’t stop when asked by her management.

Apples and oranges comparison.

+2 This is so frustrating.

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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.

Except he didn't display any hysterical behavior, and she did.

Funny how only women are ever called "hysterical". I don't think calling out Dave Wiegel for saying that women are either bipolar or bisexual is "hysterical." I do think Dave Wiegel is somewhat sociopathic.

Dude, it was a joke. A re-tweet. May have even been an accidental re-tweet. Relax and move on. Raging about this makes you sound unstable.

A female reporter called out a sexist joke and got fired. Not funny to me. (Also, you're trying to call many many posters unstable, and the fact that you think you're having a dialogue with one person just makes you sound dim.)

We’re 20 pages into this and you still don’t even know why she was fired.

She wasn’t fired for simply calling him out. She was fired because she went overboard, disrespected her colleagues, and wouldn’t stop when asked by her management.

Apples and oranges comparison.

+2 This is so frustrating.

Dave Wiegel publicly disrespected all women. He has a job.
She complained that he publicly disrespected all women. The Washington post fired 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.

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.

Except he didn't display any hysterical behavior, and she did.

Funny how only women are ever called "hysterical". I don't think calling out Dave Wiegel for saying that women are either bipolar or bisexual is "hysterical." I do think Dave Wiegel is somewhat sociopathic.

Dude, it was a joke. A re-tweet. May have even been an accidental re-tweet. Relax and move on. Raging about this makes you sound unstable.

A female reporter called out a sexist joke and got fired. Not funny to me. (Also, you're trying to call many many posters unstable, and the fact that you think you're having a dialogue with one person just makes you sound dim.)

We’re 20 pages into this and you still don’t even know why she was fired.

She wasn’t fired for simply calling him out. She was fired because she went overboard, disrespected her colleagues, and wouldn’t stop when asked by her management.

Apples and oranges comparison.

+2 This is so frustrating.

Dave Wiegel publicly disrespected all women. He has a job.
She complained that he publicly disrespected all women. The Washington post fired her.

She was fired because she was acting like a raging lunatic with her continued tweets complaining about her colleagues. She was apparently counseled many times to cease and desist, yet she did not. She was fired because she wouldn't stop throwing her temper tantrum. Get over it.

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Did Felicia find this thread? Throughout these 20+ pages of discussion there is a constant repetition of wrong information - perhaps the same person posting again and again. Whoever keeps insisting that she was fired for calling out a sexist tweet is determined to misrepresent the facts.

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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.

Except he didn't display any hysterical behavior, and she did.

Funny how only women are ever called "hysterical". I don't think calling out Dave Wiegel for saying that women are either bipolar or bisexual is "hysterical." I do think Dave Wiegel is somewhat sociopathic.

Dude, it was a joke. A re-tweet. May have even been an accidental re-tweet. Relax and move on. Raging about this makes you sound unstable.

A female reporter called out a sexist joke and got fired. Not funny to me. (Also, you're trying to call many many posters unstable, and the fact that you think you're having a dialogue with one person just makes you sound dim.)

We’re 20 pages into this and you still don’t even know why she was fired.

She wasn’t fired for simply calling him out. She was fired because she went overboard, disrespected her colleagues, and wouldn’t stop when asked by her management.

Apples and oranges comparison.

+2 This is so frustrating.

Dave Wiegel publicly disrespected all women. He has a job.
She complained that he publicly disrespected all women. The Washington post fired her.

She was fired because she was acting like a raging lunatic with her continued tweets complaining about her colleagues. She was apparently counseled many times to cease and desist, yet she did not. She was fired because she wouldn't stop throwing her temper tantrum. Get over it.

That’s your opinion Dave Wiegel, not a fact. Learn the difference

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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.

Except he didn't display any hysterical behavior, and she did.

Funny how only women are ever called "hysterical". I don't think calling out Dave Wiegel for saying that women are either bipolar or bisexual is "hysterical." I do think Dave Wiegel is somewhat sociopathic.

Dude, it was a joke. A re-tweet. May have even been an accidental re-tweet. Relax and move on. Raging about this makes you sound unstable.

A female reporter called out a sexist joke and got fired. Not funny to me. (Also, you're trying to call many many posters unstable, and the fact that you think you're having a dialogue with one person just makes you sound dim.)

We’re 20 pages into this and you still don’t even know why she was fired.

She wasn’t fired for simply calling him out. She was fired because she went overboard, disrespected her colleagues, and wouldn’t stop when asked by her management.

Apples and oranges comparison.

+2 This is so frustrating.

Dave Wiegel publicly disrespected all women. He has a job.
She complained that he publicly disrespected all women. The Washington post fired her.

She was fired because she was acting like a raging lunatic with her continued tweets complaining about her colleagues. She was apparently counseled many times to cease and desist, yet she did not. She was fired because she wouldn't stop throwing her temper tantrum. Get over it.

It’s not “acting like a raging lunatic” to call out sexism. She was fired for persisting….

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Anonymous wrote:Did Felicia find this thread? Throughout these 20+ pages of discussion there is a constant repetition of wrong information - perhaps the same person posting again and again. Whoever keeps insisting that she was fired for calling out a sexist tweet is determined to misrepresent the facts.

Yes, very interesting.

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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.

Except he didn't display any hysterical behavior, and she did.

Funny how only women are ever called "hysterical". I don't think calling out Dave Wiegel for saying that women are either bipolar or bisexual is "hysterical." I do think Dave Wiegel is somewhat sociopathic.

Dude, it was a joke. A re-tweet. May have even been an accidental re-tweet. Relax and move on. Raging about this makes you sound unstable.

A female reporter called out a sexist joke and got fired. Not funny to me. (Also, you're trying to call many many posters unstable, and the fact that you think you're having a dialogue with one person just makes you sound dim.)

We’re 20 pages into this and you still don’t even know why she was fired.

She wasn’t fired for simply calling him out. She was fired because she went overboard, disrespected her colleagues, and wouldn’t stop when asked by her management.

Apples and oranges comparison.

+2 This is so frustrating.

Dave Wiegel publicly disrespected all women. He has a job.
She complained that he publicly disrespected all women. The Washington post fired her.

I can’t stand Dave. But he deleted the retweet and apologized for it right away.

What more do you want, exactly? He even got suspended without pay for a month.

I’d understand if he was like “I did it and I feel great and I don’t feel bad! ha!” But that’s not what happened…

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Anonymous wrote:Did Felicia find this thread? Throughout these 20+ pages of discussion there is a constant repetition of wrong information - perhaps the same person posting again and again. Whoever keeps insisting that she was fired for calling out a sexist tweet is determined to misrepresent the facts.

They’re also reporting random posts super quickly, as if they (read she) is literally refreshing the thread all day. Totally normal behavior. Yikes.