RC8
Senior Member
She went to other people at the party and told them about what had happened. Obviously you wouldn't expect her to react to it immediately, but if she was speaking to others at the event and talking about how she wanted to 'punch him in the face', she should have realised that bringing it up would significantly increase the chances of reaching any sort of closure.
By making this public directly through social media the chances that Ford will either apologise or be held accountable for his actions are very, very slim.
If you are in an office and one of your co-workers drunkenly assaults you, you should tell your boss and your co-workers' supervisor before posting it on social media, too. It's not about ethics or whether you are a victim or not, it's about seeking legitimate channels of conflict resolution rather than issuing very serious defamatory statements about someone else before they've had a chance to tell their version of the story.
I'm a very reasonable person, but I would be much less likely to apologise for anything if I find out about the accusations on facebook and there's no evidence to back them up. It immediately puts you on the defensive. A compulsive liar like Rob Ford will surely deny her any sort of an apology. So what did she really expect with this approach? It feels like she couldn't care less about the apology, and just wanted to make this as public as she possibly could - which ultimately hurts her case further.
Her actions are inconsistent with her stated goal, that's all.
