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And in a nice follow-up to Boobgate...
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vito_excalibur has an most excellent suggestion, the Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Program.
vito_excalibur has an most excellent suggestion, the Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Program. Here's my pledge: if I see somebody groping you in public, and you're not moaning Yes! Yes! Yes!, I will break through your Somebody Else's Problem invisibility field and come over and ask if you're okay. If your situation looks dangerous enough I can't help on my own, I will call over friends or, if it's a situation in which I think the cops would be on your side, I will call the cops. If you're being harassed by a guy, you can say so to me, even if you don't know me. I pledge I will distract him so you can get away, or I will tell him that he needs to leave, or whatever I can do to the best of my ability.I'm going to be quoting the whole thing if I don't stop. And "creepy guy" is defined as gender-neutral.
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Yes, even at Wiscon. I pledge that even if I don't know you, if there is a creepy guy following you around, you can say so, and I will not say to you go hide in your room; I will say to him go find another party, or if necessary, go home. I will come with you if you need to talk to the con organizers. I will not make you feel like your right to control over your own body is not a big deal.
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[Why, yes, I am aware that a woman needing an older white male's help in dealing with this problem Illustrates Significant Issues. I'm going to run away now.]
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One rather hopes it's the same person and he diversified, there being a finite number of superheroines. I mean, lord knows it's entirely possible for there to be more than one freak of that level in the fandom in that area, but I sleep better at night believing there isn't. :P
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I have no idea what area of the country or what con this is from, but an artist once told me online that her local Creepy Guy's particular fetish was pictures of furries with their feet stuck in glue.
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Mind Bleach, please!
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Oooh, what did you do to him?
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I remember hearing him torturing some young artists with a boring recital of his health problems, but I did not overhear him saying anything skeevy.
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OT
Re: OT
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I'm reminded of the time after one of my old band's performances where one of the guys who helped print up our shirts came up to me drunk and would not leave me alone. There was no groping, but he was close enough to me whenever I moved that I was getting his spit on my skin, and he was telling me how I'd sung from the soul and he was a virgin and.... Being that he was our shirt supplier, I was even warier of making a scene to get away. A woman I really don't like--personality conflicts--saw I was having trouble, came over, said the band needed me elsewhere, and got me away. My gratitude was huge.
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But then I was also not as young and cute as some of the other artists. The one next to me drew him with some character on his lap (fully clothed), and I heard him telling her all about his horrible diagnosis of cancer and how he was going to have this dangerous operation, etc. Funnily enough, the next year someone told me he was going around telling everyone about his horrible diagnosis of back problems and how he was going to have this dangerous operation, etc. I wonder what he's going to have this year?
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Ick!
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And yes, we do need to stick up for anyone, of either gender, who is being harassed by said gender-neutral "creepy guy".
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