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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, she was given several warnings to stop her behavior. She had a choice, but continued—sounds like a loose cannon. [/quote]

+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.  [/quote]

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![/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]
“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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I think the point is that Weigel wasn’t thinking, because that level of misogyny is something he’s comfortable with. Which, of course, makes any story he ever writes about women suspect. I’m genuinely not sure how he can be a trusted reporter on any stories about a woman again.

I actually think his correct punishment should have been that he isn’t allowed to write a story that features or quotes any woman for years. He isn’t trustworthy. He should not be fired, and I’m not even sure being docked a month of pay is right. But he should not be able to write about women. [/quote]
Do you actually think this is some genius idea? Give me a break. It's impossible to write a news article that's not about women - they are half of the country. Saying "Well, we won't punish you in the traditional sense but you can't write about women" is just passive-aggressive. [/quote]

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