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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
If only this were a story about gay male cops.  That would trigger so many people for so many reasons.

The misogyny in this comes from the fact she’s being ridiculed for being a terrible woman first and being a terrible cop second.  That’s where the line seems to be crossed here.  Her being a terrible woman or person isn’t really the public’s business, except that she was a cop.
gpt
Well, I would say that unless she was in an open marriage it would make her a terrible person regardless of gender for cheating on her partner. I would imagine and hope that if genders were reversed the journalist would slate the male officer for being a terrible person and man. I would be hesitant to point to that being misogynistic on the part of the journalist. I think like it or not becoming a cop makes you to some extent a public figure and you should be held to some sort of standard even in your private life, which is why she was fired for the way she conducted herself in her private life as were the other officers. That’s not to say there were no sexist reasons as to why the journalists picked up and ran so quick to this article. I’m just not convinced that the reason you stated is all that convincing.