A SpaceX employee says that she spent seven years working at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California enduring sexual abuse, unequal pay, discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation, in a new lawsuit against the company. But her story paints a much graver picture than those individual words can convey, describing widespread harassment and coordinated action to not only enable but also later give cover for sexual coercion, by a man she says was her direct supervisor.

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Right. The only job she could get was at SpaceX.

Her own greed had nothing to do with it.

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Do you know her situation? No you don’t.

This is some real victim-blaming. She was sexually abused. She was forced to father some asshole’s child. And your response is the employment equivalent of “she shouldn’t have worn that short skirt.”

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She was forced to father some asshole’s child.

Lol, what? I thought abortion was legal in California. Are you saying she was raped and kept the baby to term? Use your words, man.

And your response is the employment equivalent of “she shouldn’t have worn that short skirt.”

No it’s not, stop replacing what I’m saying with your own words as though they’re my own.

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If you had read the document in the article, you would have known that he tried to force her to abort it after forcing her to have unprotected sex. It starts on page 13 if you want to read it for yourself.

And if that wasn’t what you were saying, what was your point in claiming she was only staying in that job out of greed?

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