I think it’s fine to criticize things people write, rather than asking questions (particularly given that in the post you say you won’t be engaging with the comments).
I did read the original post.
At no point did I claim that you were being emotional.
I live in Berkeley and I don’t know who you are (altho it’s possible I haven’t connected your pseudonym to your real-life identity).
I think it’s fine to write things anonymously, as long as you’re fine with people not taking things you say about your identity for granted.
I don’t think “social work and rape are so strongly related that working in one field gives you experience in the other”, I just think that social work and sociology aren’t what I would normally consider “STEM”. [EDIT: I also don’t disbelieve the quoted claim—maybe social work involves talking to rape victims? I just know very little about social work.]
I guess it’s possible that CEA ought to recognize your work more, but the average person reading this isn’t in a state to conclude that one way or the other given that they don’t know who you are and you’ve (maybe correctly) decided to be guarded about what you share.
“I think you also don’t place value getting survivors to tell me their stories”—I don’t know who you are, but for all I know you’re a good person for people to talk to.
“and don’t place value on the effort I’ve put into the other work I do or investigative processes informed by law”—your post includes almost nothing about this, so it would be hard for me to properly appreciate it.
“I strongly feel my work in doing so deserves to be held in high regard”—I think it’s fine to decline to do work without being paid, or to tell people why they should respect your work. But the latter sort of requires you to actually say who you are (so they know who to respect) and what you’ve actually done (so they know why to respect you), which the post is pretty light on.
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I think it’s fine to criticize things people write, rather than asking questions (particularly given that in the post you say you won’t be engaging with the comments).
I did read the original post.
At no point did I claim that you were being emotional.
I live in Berkeley and I don’t know who you are (altho it’s possible I haven’t connected your pseudonym to your real-life identity).
I think it’s fine to write things anonymously, as long as you’re fine with people not taking things you say about your identity for granted.
I don’t think “social work and rape are so strongly related that working in one field gives you experience in the other”, I just think that social work and sociology aren’t what I would normally consider “STEM”. [EDIT: I also don’t disbelieve the quoted claim—maybe social work involves talking to rape victims? I just know very little about social work.]
I guess it’s possible that CEA ought to recognize your work more, but the average person reading this isn’t in a state to conclude that one way or the other given that they don’t know who you are and you’ve (maybe correctly) decided to be guarded about what you share.
“I think you also don’t place value getting survivors to tell me their stories”—I don’t know who you are, but for all I know you’re a good person for people to talk to.
“and don’t place value on the effort I’ve put into the other work I do or investigative processes informed by law”—your post includes almost nothing about this, so it would be hard for me to properly appreciate it.
“I strongly feel my work in doing so deserves to be held in high regard”—I think it’s fine to decline to do work without being paid, or to tell people why they should respect your work. But the latter sort of requires you to actually say who you are (so they know who to respect) and what you’ve actually done (so they know why to respect you), which the post is pretty light on.