Analysis Of Ellen Pao: Fighter Of Sexism

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Authors emphasize that ex-chief executive of the popular social media site Reddit was broadsided with assaults and curses because of her gender only. They show their attitude by supporting a woman. They want the audience to see the situation from their perspective and prove her innocence.

It is obvious even at the beginning of the text – Ellen Pao is called a “fighter of Sexism” for people to see that she is fighting against discrimination being a victim herself. Authors don’t want her to give up so they are persuading the audience in her guiltlessness. They also show how critical the situation is – they use a metaphor for the score, as if life was a sports game, alongside with calling her a fighter of sexism – she loses as the society discriminating or approving discrimination will win, but this is definitely an absurd and it’s not a fair game. Then publicists prove their point by explaining the context to the audience using the most beneficial quotes of hers and others. Sam Altman calls the situation set “a shame against humanity” and Ellen herself comment on it that ugly in people made her doubt humanity. In these quotes, there is emphasis made on the word humanity. Ellen claims it has gone or at least faded and the point that humankind in terms of collectivism and cooperation are nowadays replaced with discrimination is supported by
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“The debates over diversity in technology and invective on the internet have been simmering for a long time, but they’ve boiled over in the last year”, - exactly a year she was given a broadside, a year when the cruel behavior was especially out of control. They also noticed the fact that Reddit users were predominantly male and 18 to 29 years old which increases the possibility of chief executive to be discriminated by

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