[Noisebridge-discuss] I got groped at noisebridge at hackmeet

[Ronald Cotoni]

Susan, I have one other piece of advice.  I would go to law enforcement
with a description of whoever did it.  Perhaps they have a history of this
and are already wanted.

Sexual assault is a serious matter and is beyond this space to deal with
appropriately.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:30 AM, VonGuard <vonguard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow. Really Noisebridge? I am so utterly disappointed in everything
> about this email and the reaction to it that I am appalled and ashamed
> that I was every associated with the space to begin with.
>
> I sat down in front of the assembled membership 2 years ago and was
> almost in tears explaining why this sort of shit had to be taken
> seriously, and why Noisebridge could NOT tollerate this typoe of
> sexist behavior in the space. It was a fight to get ya'll to recognize
> it then. I see now my efforts were pointless.
>
> I apologize to you Susan for the awful behavior of people in the space
> and on this list. You're very right in not ever wanting to come back.
> Noisebridge has changed. Noisebridge is pure shit now.
>
> This reminds me of Reddit, where rapists are protected and normal
> people or accusers are ostracized. Good job people, you fucked up
> Noisebridge with your privileged male-ness.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Susan Werner <heinousbutch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I went to hackmeet today, tried to join in a few conversations, and got
> told
> > to fuck off because I don't already know people. As I was crying and
> talking
> > to someone on the Internet about how these kinds of events are
> intentionally
> > hostile to people who don't already have significant social connections,
> some
> > guy walks by me, and rubs his hand on my right breast, and calmly walks
> on as
> > if nothing happened.
> >
> > I got groped while I was crying at noisebridge, during an event with
> lots of
> > people at it, and nobody did anything. Nobody spoke a word to me. Nobody
> > offered any kind of help whatsoever, and lots of people walked by me, as
> I was
> > there for about half an hour after that happened.
> >
> > I'm done with noisebridge, done with its community which enables sexual
> > assault, done with events which are intentionally hostile to newcomers,
> done
> > with all the bullshit about it being an "anarchist space" where nothing
> can be
> > said about entitled jerks who make the space hostile for others.
> >
> > Until someone works on the whole "hostility to newcomers" bit of hacker
> > culture, harassment will be endemic. As long as newcomers are seen as
> people to
> > be excluded and hazed, no amount of non-harassment policies or codes of
> conduct
> > will do anything substantial.
> >
> > Kicking out the people who grope isn't enough and won't cause systemic
> change.
> > Change the culture which encourages treating newcomers and outsiders
> like shit,
> > and ignores anything anyone does to newcomers, don't just kick out
> people who
> > further this sort of culture.
> >
> > Have fun with your hackerspaces and your shitty-ass subculture based on
> > exclusion and abuse. I don't even need to talk to people like y'all and
> I'm not
> > going to spend a moment of extra time with a bunch of people who can't
> even
> > look at me after I get groped in front of fifteen people.
> >
> > I have a key to noisebridge. If anyone wants it, let me know.
> >
> > --
> > Susan
> >
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Ronald Cotoni
Systems Engineer
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