Thanks for writing this, I appreciate it a lot, especially that you wrote it on the forum. I recall you once said EAs wasn’t edgy enough for you. How are we doing now?
Regarding the time article my feelings are that several of the men in the article are no longer EA’s, one having been banned from events for years. That said, discussion of the article has lead me to think there is a reasonable amount of undiscussed sexual harassment (notably J_J saying she gets far more reports about EA than comparable communities, Julia Wise treating J_J as a reasonable source and our community having a lot of men who struggle with social norms (myself included) and young women. so I buy the conclusion that there are harms here)
So what, am I gonna tweet at Time and say that they were wrong, even though I think there is a problem roughly of the size they describe? I mean if you want to defend EA go for it, but I find that us doing it on Twitter is just a mess.
And so if there is actually a discussion around sexual culture, it seems better to try and have that discussion then endlessly push back against Time. It’s not that I’m skeptical or not—they are largely anonymous accusers and anonymous accused. My question is what happens (if anything) going forward.
Thanks for writing this, I appreciate it a lot, especially that you wrote it on the forum. I recall you once said EAs wasn’t edgy enough for you. How are we doing now?
Regarding the time article my feelings are that several of the men in the article are no longer EA’s, one having been banned from events for years. That said, discussion of the article has lead me to think there is a reasonable amount of undiscussed sexual harassment (notably J_J saying she gets far more reports about EA than comparable communities, Julia Wise treating J_J as a reasonable source and our community having a lot of men who struggle with social norms (myself included) and young women. so I buy the conclusion that there are harms here)
So what, am I gonna tweet at Time and say that they were wrong, even though I think there is a problem roughly of the size they describe? I mean if you want to defend EA go for it, but I find that us doing it on Twitter is just a mess.
And so if there is actually a discussion around sexual culture, it seems better to try and have that discussion then endlessly push back against Time. It’s not that I’m skeptical or not—they are largely anonymous accusers and anonymous accused. My question is what happens (if anything) going forward.