I'm going to defend this woman because I think it's the only correct and civilized response to this situation. The fact that she wore this costume and tweeted it to her friends may have been silly on her part. However, it was wrong of her to lose her job over it. She has freedom of expression in her private sphere. Also the place she worked for didn't seem to have an issue with it at the time. Finally, the people who caught wind of this picture and got all hot and bothered over it waged a massive cyber bullying campaign against her. She got punished by lynch mob rule.
To put it into perspective, I think you'd be hard pressed to find any member on this forum who hasn't posted something stupid or offensive at one time or another. How would you feel is someone took an "offensive" post you made in P&N and used it to wage a campaign to take away your job? Probably pretty bad, victimized even?
At some point, we decided as a society that mob rule it the correct rule. Which history has shown is rarely the case. Just proves you just need a couple hundred people to be sufficiently "outraged" to take away someone's living and destroy their lives. Each one of these people who attacked this woman should be charged with stalking.
Poor taste? Yes Should she have posted pics taken at work? NO...but it WAS a Halloween costume. Many are (at best) in poor taste.
Personally, I think ALL Halloween costumes should be banned from the workplace. You're there to work, not act like kids.
Concur. NOT a chick you put a ring on.Wow big ass biker gang tattoo on her body.
She seems like a dumb attention whore. Definitely not marriage material.
Poor judgement? Uh maybe. Personally I don't see what the big deal is. She's not in Boston. People need to grow thicker skin and stop being internet badasses. Three whole people died in Boston. I bet lots of people dressed up as Christopher Dorner and that guy killed 4 people. Where's the outrage!? Where are the death threats?! It's Halloween people!
Nudes a problem? Once again poor judgement. I don't see why she got fired though. What kind of job did she have that nudes would reflect poorly on the company and justify being fired? I can see it if she was in politics or education but this girl was probably working as a waitress. She will probably generate more business. I think we're going to end up with an entire generation of girls with nudes all over the internet pretty soon. We gonna fire them all? Shit unemployment in her age bracket is already over 50%. Might as well go all the way.
People need to really get over themselves and calm the fuck down.
Just enter her name + nude or such on google and you will be rewarded.
Buy why oh why have mine not gone viral????people put naked pics of them on the internet these days?
Do you see 911 as being similar to the Boston Bombing?
I think it's safe to say that dressing up as Hitler or Osama Bin Laden is not acceptable. Dressing up as Ted Bundy, the Zodiac, or even a Boston Bomber is ok. She wasn't in Boston.
You might be better off dressing up as Carthage.
Good point, since only 3 people died it should be okay. I think next year she should dress as World Trade Center 1 with a plane crashing into it. Its been plenty of time and only 3000+ people died.
Do you see 911 as being similar to the Boston Bombing?
I think it's safe to say that dressing up as Hitler or Osama Bin Laden is not acceptable. Dressing up as Ted Bundy, the Zodiac, or even a Boston Bomber is ok. She wasn't in Boston.
You might be better off dressing up as Carthage.
Where she posted it is 100% relevant in this case so you cannot say it isn't.
I did say it, and I stand by it. Insensitivity and bad taste aren't criminal acts. There is no good reason to contact her parents or her employer - they could have found the photos on their own well before Halloween, if they chose to do so.
Threatening someone's business because of the bad taste of one employee isn't fair or reasonable.
The sad part is many above post up far more insensitive items here and get all giggity how 'anon' they are.
I did say it, and I stand by it. Insensitivity and bad taste aren't criminal acts. There is no good reason to contact her parents or her employer - they could have found the photos on their own well before Halloween, if they chose to do so.
Threatening someone's business because of the bad taste of one employee isn't fair or reasonable.