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It wasn’t exactly a Hester Prynne situation.

According to those supporters, Holmes was singled out because she was a woman who briefly eclipsed the men who customarily bask in Silicon Valley’s spotlight, and the trial turned her into a latter-day version of Hester Prynne — the protagonist in the 1850 novel “The Scarlet Letter.”

The Scarlet Letter: Hester Prynne uses the special powers given to her by her cool letter-A suit to shatter society’s expectations of what women can do!

“We no longer have what Hester Prynne had, but we have a version of it,” said Gillian Silverman, a gender studies scholar and professor of English at the University of Colorado Denver, referencing the 1850 novel “The Scarlet Letter,” whose subject is shamed for her adultery.

In the past, departing from the traditional practice of marriage often led to damaging and unwarranted stigma — Hester Prynne’s scarlet “A.”