#FHRITP

Meet the guy who was fired from his high-paying job over a #FHRITP video http://t.co/6mfvZQR9xq Some good news this morning

— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) May 13, 2015

Well, I'm certainly glad that Jessica's boiling rage has been turned down to a simmer. And all it took was ruining a young man's life.

I had no idea that #FHRITP was even a thing until about an hour ago. I once saw a guy being interviewed by a female reporter, a few months ago, and he asked her out. That was charming. #FHRITP is vulgar and degrading, and Shawn Simoes is a Grade-A Jackass. Alcohol and testosterone is a dangerous mix. I don't think he deserved to be fired.

He was fired from Canada's Hydro One because he violated the company's Conduct Policy. Hydro One's corporate affairs director Daffyd Roderick said, "we are committed to a work environment where discrimination or harassment of any type is met with zero tolerance."

Erm, Daffyd, the insult didn't occur in your work environment, it occurred at hers. Why not just admit that if you didn't fire him, radical feminists and their white knights would descend on your company in spasms of anguish and hostility? In the United States, an employee can be fired for any reason or no reason. I don't know if they have to show cause in Canada, but that cause is pretty flimsy.

Meanwhile, Jessica Valenti is silent on the degrading speech of Saida Grundy, who has tweeted, among other things, that "white masculinity is THE problem for America's colleges." Grundy is a professor at Boston University. Her speech has brought plenty of criticism, but the university is standing by their racist, with the president remarking that "At Boston University, we acknowledge Dr. Grundy’s right to hold and express her opinions."

Boston University President Brown has a stronger cause for termination than Hydro One did. According to Title IX, educational opportunities must not be sexually discriminatory. Grundy has created a hostile educational environment for white males. #FHRITA.

The line for deciding whether speech is abusive or not, is whether or not a protected class is offended.