We've been missing one piece of information in all the condemning and howling and insanity of the Rebeccapocalypse: the notorious talk at CFI in which Watson hatefully and viciously tore into a poor innocent student and ripped her to shreds in public…or, at least, that's how it's been characterized by some people. Omission corrected: here's the youtube video of the infamous talk:
Wow. Excellent talk, and guess what? The poor student was discussed civilly and without victimization. She didn't even make up an insulting name for her.
It's rather clear that the focus of her talk was presenting the evidence for anti-woman craziness that the people at CFI could use, not on attacking anyone at CFI.
(via Furious Purpose)
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