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

[Susan Werner]

You see that email quoted below? Read it. It says what I want to say.

Fuck y'all motherfuckers who defend misogyny. Trying to write anything 
beyond insults consumes too much time and spoons and most of y'alls are 
a waste of my spoons to engage with. 

-- 
Sus``and take your whiter-than-a-sparkly-white-vampire-taint sexist
hacker community and shove it where the sun don't shine''an

On Oct 22 15:02, daravinne <daravinne at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've ignored noisebridge and the mailing list for months, because the
> bar got so low that i couldn't afford the drilling equipment needed to
> locate it. I don't give two shits about your oogle problem or your
> sleeping drama or whatever other whiny bullshit is the wankfest du
> jour, but this is really, really fucking important.
> 
> I've been on panels at two internationally recognized hackercons about
> depression in the geek community, and in the longer panel at HOPE I
> brought up the pervasive habit of the "radically inclusive" hacker
> community to protect abusive people and behavior in the name of not
> ostracizing people or being "too PC" or otherwise fucking up the
> us-against-them status quo.  This is a stellar example of that
> behavior.  Seriously, I don't know how one gets such a mirror shine
> onto a turd. Satellites can see that shit from space.
> 
> Jesus H. Christ in a flying rat vagina, what the actual fuck is wrong
> with you people?  I honestly don't even have words for how completely
> fucked this is.  It makes me want to get a pliers from the dirty shop
> and start breaking fingers until everyone's learned their lesson.
> 
> There is a culture specific to noisebridge of nonaccountability.
> There is no real penalty for unacceptable behavior.  There is no
> repercussion to an individual or individuals who cross a line or harm
> another person.  The process of consensus must be applied to
> EVERYTHING, such that no cohesive group action can be performed
> efficiently or quickly, if at all.  "Do-ocracy" subs for group action
> but has no lasting effect on the psychology of the group or how it
> functions.  I have often described it as a black hole into which one
> can throw unlimited amounts of resources with no return.
> 
> There is also a culture specific to the hacker community of pervasive
> emotional abuse, executed in such a way that promotes mistrust,
> paranoia, fear and aggression among peers and friends.  Nonvigilance
> guarantees victimhood, and victims are reminded that it's their fault
> for not being vigilant enough or not striking first.  Infosec is the
> biggest offender by far, but this mindset has spilled over into
> anything connected to the hacker scene and culture.  Bonus prizes
> include sexist behavior and ideology among both genders, a generous
> sprinkling of rape culture, and all the slut-shaming your heart could
> desire.
> 
> Mash these two things together, and you get "a woman goes to a hacker
> party and is alienated by the local hacker community to the point
> where she is publicly crying, and is then sexually assaulted while
> crying, in front of community members who do nothing. This same
> community proceeds to then lash out at her ON THE INTERNET for
> complaining about being sexually assaulted."
> 
> Holy everloving shit, I'm in r/creepshots.
> 
> Oh, and don't try and hand me that "noisebridge-discuss isn't the same
> as the people in the actual space, isn't the same at the irc channel".
>  You people pass the buck so fast I'm surprised DARPA hasn't claimed
> it for renewable energy.   Everyone who does something in conjunction
> with the noisebridge name publicly represents the space and
> philosophy, whether you like it or not.  I have been uncomfortable for
> a long time with declaring any association with noisebridge, because
> of shit like this.  The noisebridge community is an embarrassment, and
> has been for a while.  Fuck your bedbugs, fuck your robot, fuck your
> kitchen, fuck yo couch.
> 
> I appreciate those who have taken this seriously, vonguard and danny
> and ron and liz and whoever else i'm forgetting.   I have been through
> many incidences of emotional and physical abuse from hackers, and
> those incidences have been witnessed by hackers, who have sat by and
> done nothing, or blamed me if I tried to stand up for myself.  As
> someone who has experienced abusive behavior in the hacker community
> for years, the statement "we should probably be more proactive about
> this" feels inadequate.
> 
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