The legal team representing Ellen Pao would have you believe that their client is a helpless damsel in distress who had succumb to the “boys club” at KPCB. Ellen Pao may even subscribe to this belief. Plenty in the media also subscribe to this belief.

However to believe this, you are foregoing facts and logic in order to push a larger agenda. An agenda focused on the shaming of successful “white men” (because it’s much easier to garner support for an issue that conveniently places blame on a single group of individuals). An agenda that conveniently ignores statistics and relies on the ignorance of a mob mentality.

Please, man or woman, do not subscribe to these lies. Do not diminish legitimate issues by embracing fallacious arguments, which are all too often repeated without contention. Empowering women is a legitimate cause, as is empowering men. Do not alienate yourself by idly standing by as the media encourages a herd mentality based on false story lines.

http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/live-updates-from-ferguson-on-the-grand-jury-decision-in-michael-brown-shooting/

Ellen Pao should not be embraced. Nor should her story.