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Nope. All we've done so far is calmly and professionally registered our disgust with her public opinions. She is, whether she likes it or not, a public figure and is therefore held to a higher standard than the average person. If Bama Bob had written those comments, then yes they'd be dismissed as the typical frothing of a lunatic. The woman in question, however, is not the average person because she has a public pulpit. Which she did not use to espouse these views.
So what should we do?
Be rational? Not froth at the mouth?
Unless you have a better idea, you offer nothing.
Wow. I'm nearly speechless. Thank God not completely speechless.
I wasn't aware you lived in a magical land of fairies and gnomes where clouds are made of cotton candy, rivers run with chocolate and kids ride unicorns to school.
Are you NUTS?
Ignore a reporter who demeans something we all cherish and hold dear because she didn't do it in print? Yeah. That's such a great idea.
Maybe you do live in happy land where the harshest word allowed is "Hale well, hearty traveler!"
Reality is far removed from that. I fired a woman last year who worked for me because it came to my attention that she posted something racially inflammatory on Facebook. It was her opinion and expressed in relation to a situation regarding her daughter. But I can't allow my company to be attached to that and she put it out there in a public forum under her own name.
I opted not to hire another woman because she had pictures on her facebook page of her taking shots off another woman's stomach, licking another woman's face and leg and drinking from a bottle stuffed into her bra. In the interviews she was professional and poised and I would have loved to hire her. But I couldn't risk my clients or potential clients absently looking her up and running across that. No, I do not have her number and I'm not going to release her name, so you can just imagine. She was very good looking, though.
What people say and do in their personal lives can and should have potential impact on their professional lives.
Good lord, how we handle things internally (i.e. the Tuberville situation) is a far different thing from how we respond to attacks from the outside.
I don't want their respect. I don't care about their respect. That's not the goal. The goal is to let them know on no uncertain terms that we're not going to accept their bullshit any longer. Enough is enough. Fuck respect. Fear is better.
Frothing? Oh fuck you. Who's frothing? JR? He called and expressed his displeasure. Did you read the letter I wrote to the woman's bosses? Did I ask for her to be fired? Was anybody frothing?
Please stay in namby pamby land and frown your PC ass off if somebody says "poopy" because it's such a nasty word.
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