Please do not doxx other victims, ESPECIALLY when they are underage.
Rochelle Shen was the only person to step into the situation. The rest of the housemates showed an extremely poor understanding of sexual violence and rationalized away serious acts of abuse and rape. The perpetrator used “messy breakup” as a way to rationalize away acts of domestic abuse. The perpetrator called his other victims to blackmail them into silence. The housemates ignored many other warning signs and red flags from this guy, including assaults and gropings of multiple unrelated women.
Without Rochelle Shen, there would still be a serial predator owning the lease of a group house full of young and underage women. She is a hero.
Rochelle spent the first few months of allegations saying that her house co-founder ex is a pathological liar. She only changed this narrative after an argument with people in the house, completely manipulating the narrative and saying that people turned on her because she is a victim of sexual misconduct. When [redacted], founder of Neighborhood, tried to coordinate this situation, she threatened him with allegations too.
To be clear—another woman already mentioned in the article has been lied to by Rochelle too.
I am in contact with the victims. They report Rochelle as consistently supporting them and calling out rapists and rape apologists at the house. She was the only person who actively got the perpetrator off the lease and out of the house—not naval-gazing into a Google doc of expected value calculations and asking the victims to be quieter about speaking out.
Comments like gated’s are precisely why Silicon Valley is such a misogynistic place: why women are afraid to speak up and why women cannot defend other woman without getting reputationally slaughtered.
gated’s comment is precisely the rape apologism that makes it very hard to hold predators accountable for sexual violence.
You also notice the conflation of rape/sexual assault with a bunch of random made-up infractions to distract from the issue.
I am not apologetic of sexual misconduct. I also have been supporting a number of victims through similar situations. Which is why I can not take it when people use sexual allegations for their own gain.
At the time the situation was happening, the house formed a council that asked both Rochelle and her male co-lead to step down ( she mishandled the coordination of the allegations). The male co-lead stepped down in favor of the council. Rochelle refused to step down. Instead, she launched a campaign of threats against people in the house, reminding everyone she had “political connections”.
I was also involved in the situation.
Please do not doxx other victims, ESPECIALLY when they are underage.
Rochelle Shen was the only person to step into the situation. The rest of the housemates showed an extremely poor understanding of sexual violence and rationalized away serious acts of abuse and rape. The perpetrator used “messy breakup” as a way to rationalize away acts of domestic abuse. The perpetrator called his other victims to blackmail them into silence. The housemates ignored many other warning signs and red flags from this guy, including assaults and gropings of multiple unrelated women.
Without Rochelle Shen, there would still be a serial predator owning the lease of a group house full of young and underage women. She is a hero.
Rochelle spent the first few months of allegations saying that her house co-founder ex is a pathological liar. She only changed this narrative after an argument with people in the house, completely manipulating the narrative and saying that people turned on her because she is a victim of sexual misconduct. When [redacted], founder of Neighborhood, tried to coordinate this situation, she threatened him with allegations too.
To be clear—another woman already mentioned in the article has been lied to by Rochelle too.
I am in contact with the victims. They report Rochelle as consistently supporting them and calling out rapists and rape apologists at the house. She was the only person who actively got the perpetrator off the lease and out of the house—not naval-gazing into a Google doc of expected value calculations and asking the victims to be quieter about speaking out.
Done! Their name was already shared on spreadsheet shared here
Rochelle Shen brought this person into the thread and should remove them from the thread.
Witch-hunting RS was precisely why the perpetrator was able to continue (and is still continuing) predating on young women in the Bay Area.
Then why did she continue organizing events with him in the months after the story? It is not just the house that can confirm it.
Comments like gated’s are precisely why Silicon Valley is such a misogynistic place: why women are afraid to speak up and why women cannot defend other woman without getting reputationally slaughtered.
gated’s comment is precisely the rape apologism that makes it very hard to hold predators accountable for sexual violence.
You also notice the conflation of rape/sexual assault with a bunch of random made-up infractions to distract from the issue.
I am not apologetic of sexual misconduct. I also have been supporting a number of victims through similar situations. Which is why I can not take it when people use sexual allegations for their own gain.
How then should RS have handled the issue? Do enlighten me.
At the time the situation was happening, the house formed a council that asked both Rochelle and her male co-lead to step down ( she mishandled the coordination of the allegations). The male co-lead stepped down in favor of the council. Rochelle refused to step down. Instead, she launched a campaign of threats against people in the house, reminding everyone she had “political connections”.