“Why I cancelled my ReactiveConf talk”
This should be buried, and I would never invite her to speak again because she is <i>drama</i>.<p>This is a trend of hyper sensitivity that requires everyone to walk on eggshells and wear kid gloves because who knows what could trigger the emotional reaction. Really, think about this - what if a company tries to do something fun, like for halloween, and buys clip-on ties for the guys and clip-on hair ties for the girls, but then someone flips out saying &quot;I&#x27;m a guy why do i have to be stereotyped into having a tie, this is so sexist! (and the girls can do the reverse - I want a tie!). It&#x27;s all just nonsense from people who don&#x27;t have any emotional maturity, really.<p>Were the conference organizers trying to do the wrong thing? Doesn&#x27;t sound like it at all. They probably thought &quot;wonder woman is cool, this lady is cool, this image will be cool&quot; and it was actually an act to celebrate her.<p>Instead she flips out. Great, real mature. Then she posts conversations she had with them and demonizes them. real mature.<p>And about her point of being sexualized - what if a guy had his face photoshopped onto he-man and that guy complained about being sexualized because now his face is on a shirtless strong dude. These arguments only go one way for people like this.<p>There is a line, of course, and sexual harassment is real. But this isn&#x27;t anywhere near the line, its not even in the same field. We need to send a message back to her that she is the one being drama and needs to grow up and be a &#x27;real adult&#x27; like she says she is.