Jill Abramson’s ‘Badass New Hobby’

Former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson has a “badass new hobby.”

That’s according to her daughter, Cornelia Griggs, who posted a photo to Instagram on Thursday that shows the ousted editor wearing boxing gloves and posing for the picture

Alongside the caption were two hashtags: “#girls” and “#pushy,” a reference to Ken Auletta’s source reported in the New Yorker:

“She confronted the top brass,” one close associate said, and this may have fed into the management’s narrative that she was “pushy,” a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered aspect. …

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Source: Mashable