>> BOOM.. fired! See what happened there? You said it. I overreacted. You were fired. It actually is a real fear that something you say will unknowingly offend someone and get you in trouble. This has less to do with gender and sexism and more to do with just too many people being incapable of getting along.

Something similar actually happened on Twitter, Steve Marx said something about a lynch mob and she turned it into racism[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313946261055221760