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Adria Richards is a woman who was publicly shamed after she attempted to publicly shame someone herself at a tech conference in 2013. When Richards noticed a pair of men sitting behind her at a presentation making suggestive puns about tech lingo, she took a picture of the men and posted it to her Twitter, complaining to her followers about the things that women in tech (especially women of color and women who belong to religious minorities like Richards) were forced to put up with. The internet turned against the man, Hank, and his friend—but once they lost their jobs, the tides turned, and darker corners of the web turned against Richards. Men’s rights activists called for her to be raped and killed, and Richards herself ended up losing her job over the fracas. Jon Ronson relays Richards’s story to illustrate the heavily gendered nature of online shamings; men and women are punished differently by internet mobs for their perceived transgressions.
Adria Richards Quotes in So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
The So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed quotes below are all either spoken by Adria Richards or refer to Adria Richards. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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It seemed to me that all the people involved in the Hank and Adria story thought they were doing something good. But they only revealed that our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential responses so narrow that the only thing anyone can think to do with an inappropriate shamer like Adria is to punish her with a shaming. All of the shamers had themselves come from a place of shame, and it really felt parochial and self-defeating to instinctively slap shame onto shame like a clumsy builder covering cracks.
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Adria Richards Quotes in So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
The So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed quotes below are all either spoken by Adria Richards or refer to Adria Richards. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 6
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It seemed to me that all the people involved in the Hank and Adria story thought they were doing something good. But they only revealed that our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential responses so narrow that the only thing anyone can think to do with an inappropriate shamer like Adria is to punish her with a shaming. All of the shamers had themselves come from a place of shame, and it really felt parochial and self-defeating to instinctively slap shame onto shame like a clumsy builder covering cracks.
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