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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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