Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025It was a perfect viral moment, a 5 second video snippet that appeared to tell an entire story. Then the country got way, way, way too invested. 20111529
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025She's taking responsibility and has been removed from her job. If you heard this story from a friend ("omg I canoodled with my boss at a Coldplay concert last night") rather than seeing it on TikTok you wouldn't feel the need to cast her as some world-historical villain. 19118925
Penny Homer @socialsoprano.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Did the CEO get fired too or is it just women who get punished? 1110
tabgirl @tabgirl.bsky.social · 19/12/2025If she was the director of hr and he was ceo, yeah I would. 170
Kazimierz Wichura @czescjacek.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Shouldn't it be the boss who's held accountable for romancing his employee 010
Roninspoon @roninspoon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025She shouldn’t have to take responsibility for anything. The CEO was the person taking advantage of her and ignoring his responsibility to not prey on the people who worked for him. 010
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025It feels like people are desperately seeking reasons to still think she sucks even though the facts don't bear that out. If hundreds of millions of people were saying something false about me and it ruined my life, I would want to respond!(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve@braak.bsky.socialYeah okay but I don't think going to the New York Times about this is a good strategy for making this problem go away. 23139837
nic... ... @antagonic.bsky.social · 19/12/2025I will maintain: straight people and their obsession with infidelity is Weird. So somebody's cheating on their spouse, who fucking cares. Only thing I can possibly be arsed about in this case is the chain-of-command/direct report power imbalance issue, and throwing a circus about it isn't helping 1100
tb @taylorbizzle.bsky.social · 19/12/2025well that seems dumb why would she need to give up her career 040
Leslie Talbot @leslietalbot.bsky.social · 19/12/2025According to the story, she actually was not removed from her job. She left voluntarily. 0111
Super Saiga @supersaiga.bsky.social · 19/12/2025responsibility for what 😭 they were both separated from their partners, they were single why do people have to be so awful. this is why we can't nice things 010
Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Wow she was fired over that incident? Seems extreme 100
UWS Pete @uwspete.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Social media cool kids had already cast Coldplay as some world-historical shitty band that got popular via a conspiracy of bad taste. 000
Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 19/12/2025ok all fair but why does she need a NYT piece about it 010
$1000 crab (YUP CATU) @punchedmonet.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Damn I feel like even losing your job for that is a bit much 😭😭💔 000
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 19/12/2025if she didn't want to be cast as a world historic villain then why did she go to a Coldplay concert? 🤔 2231
D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Except for the Coldplay bit. Going to see Coldplay is villain shit, but somehow everyone seems to have missed that! 070
Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 19/12/2025I think the desire to cast her as a world-historical villain is the result of both: 1) Seeing both people in this story (rightly or wrongly) as part of a hated, and generally shameless, oligarchical class experiencing a moment of shame...and consequences; and 2) Virulent misogyny. 000
Dedekind Slut @chasmat.bsky.social · 19/12/2025I can explain this very easily: this feels like "elite impunity" to people and is being processed through that lens. I think everything falls into place if you assume that heuristic, and the only effective counterargument is to argue why this isn't that (seems pretty likely it isn't imo, btw) 150
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