The comment about me being “nuts” was made by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s (now former) PR guy. It was the intended subtext of a message he sent to the editor of The Post.
The NZSO has asked me to consider “informing my community of supporters” of a correction. - When they provided me with a copy of the messages, they wrote a note, in a list of attached documents, saying that personal comments “are regrettable and not supported by the NZSO”. I didn’t read the list of attachments properly and missed that note. I apologise.
Later NZSO actually apologised to me for the “nuts” comment. It was a pretty decent apology. They also wrote to their players and employees expressing the executive leadership team’s shock at their PR guy calling me nuts.
I’m not sure why they were shocked.
Months earlier I had pointed out how he described another woman as “vile”. Moving from characterising one woman as vile to another as nuts doesn’t seem like a shocking leap to me.
More generally, a well known tactic used to discredit women who talk about sexual harm is to attack their mental health and/or sexual history. This is sometimes referred to as the ‘nuts and sluts defence’. So, when a middle aged PR dude decided to portray me as “nuts” to the media, I’m not sure why the organisation paying him to speak on its behalf was shocked.
The comment about me being “nuts” was made by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s (now former) PR guy. It was the intended subtext of a message he sent to the editor of The Post.
The NZSO has asked me to consider “informing my community of supporters” of a correction. - When they provided me with a copy of the messages, they wrote a note, in a list of attached documents, saying that personal comments “are regrettable and not supported by the NZSO”. I didn’t read the list of attachments properly and missed that note. I apologise.
Later NZSO actually apologised to me for the “nuts” comment. It was a pretty decent apology. They also wrote to their players and employees expressing the executive leadership team’s shock at their PR guy calling me nuts.
I’m not sure why they were shocked.
Months earlier I had pointed out how he described another woman as “vile”. Moving from characterising one woman as vile to another as nuts doesn’t seem like a shocking leap to me.
More generally, a well known tactic used to discredit women who talk about sexual harm is to attack their mental health and/or sexual history. This is sometimes referred to as the ‘nuts and sluts defence’. So, when a middle aged PR dude decided to portray me as “nuts” to the media, I’m not sure why the organisation paying him to speak on its behalf was shocked.
Agreed 102%