The reason this story is so infuriating to me is that an actual real person was hurt. She is on leave from her job, possibly fired. A hospital lost a valuable caregiver. Did she lose her health insurance in the last weeks of pregnancy over this mess? Those are real harms. And what is the end result? Women are being told to shut up and accept being bullied on the street or they might go viral and their lives will be destroyed. That is really fucked up.

The story was never important- it was the media blow up about it that is important. A woman was nationally vilified and in danger of losing her job because of it. That’s why it matters.