# What were you THINKING?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5452 "2025-07-16T14:30:31Z")

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@wolfpup just can’t seem to help himself - saying he has “no interest in casting aspersions” in the same post in which he says she’s not innocent, and implies malicious motives, just for writing about her personal experiences:

> [@Cancel Culture and Canceling versus consequences for actions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-culture-and-canceling-versus-consequences-for-actions/1020644/515):
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> As I said, I don’t know Chloe Dysktra (or Chris Hardwick, either) from a hole in the ground and have no reason to “cast aspersions” against her. But I am indeed casting aspersions big-time on the whole concept of cancel culture, which it seems she was exploiting. And I think it’s disingenuous to speak of her as someone who “did nothing more than write about her version of her own experiences”. What she wrote was profoundly damaging to someone else’s reputation and career, a consequence she s…

Really seems like an internet meme, almost - stubborn old dude who thinks he means well but still doesn’t realize it’s wrong to talk about women the same way he did in the 90s.

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