The Washington Post Fires Felicia Sonmez Amid Week of Infighting

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3. From what I've read, there was a sexist joke appropriate to call out professionally

at the WaPo, but Ms. Sonmez has been acting immoderately for some time, and many of her colleagues felt unprofessionally in repeatedly criticizing the Post on social media, to the point creating the internal disruption that was dealt with by firing her.

In 2021 Sonmez sued the paper for sexual discrimination, and the suit was recently dismissed. That may have lead to her recent string of anti-Post behaviors and this final break.

I've seen enough of these situations personally to assume that I'd be among those colleagues texting her to change her tactics to ones more likely to succeed than to end with her removal, or, who knows, to back off altogether because I couldn't agree with her.

In any case, she'll now be independent and free to both attack the Post and work as a social warrior against sexists and inequity from outside. On top of whatever she might have achieved while there.