In the cases like this I’ve been most closely involved in, the women who have reported have not wanted to publicise the event, so sometimes action has been taken but you wouldn’t have heard about it. (I also don’t think it’s a good habit to try to maximise transparency about interpersonal relationships tbh.)
Yeah, this is very fair and I agree that transparency is not always the right call. To clarify, I’ll say that my stance here, medium confidence, is: (1) in instances which the victim/survivor has already made their accusations public, or in instances where it’s already necessarily something that isn’t interpersonal [e.g. hotness ranking], the process of accountability or repair, or at least the fact that one exists, should be public; (2) it should be transparent what kind of process a victim can expect when harm happens.
There’s some literature around procedural justice and trust that indicates that people feel better and trust the outcomes of a process more when it is transparent and invites engagement, regardless of whether the actual outcome favors them or not.
I am glad to hear that there have been cases where women have felt safe reporting and action has been taken!
(edited to delete a para about CEA community health team’s work that I realized was wrong, after seeing this page linked below)
I’d agree I’d favour systems that help people feel confident in the outcome even when it doesn’t favour them, and would like to see EA do better in these areas!
In the cases like this I’ve been most closely involved in, the women who have reported have not wanted to publicise the event, so sometimes action has been taken but you wouldn’t have heard about it. (I also don’t think it’s a good habit to try to maximise transparency about interpersonal relationships tbh.)
Yeah, this is very fair and I agree that transparency is not always the right call. To clarify, I’ll say that my stance here, medium confidence, is: (1) in instances which the victim/survivor has already made their accusations public, or in instances where it’s already necessarily something that isn’t interpersonal [e.g. hotness ranking], the process of accountability or repair, or at least the fact that one exists, should be public; (2) it should be transparent what kind of process a victim can expect when harm happens.
There’s some literature around procedural justice and trust that indicates that people feel better and trust the outcomes of a process more when it is transparent and invites engagement, regardless of whether the actual outcome favors them or not.
I am glad to hear that there have been cases where women have felt safe reporting and action has been taken!
(edited to delete a para about CEA community health team’s work that I realized was wrong, after seeing this page linked below)
I’d agree I’d favour systems that help people feel confident in the outcome even when it doesn’t favour them, and would like to see EA do better in these areas!