[Noisebridge-discuss] asked Matthew P. to leave

Matt Thrailkill matt at thrailkill.org
Mon Apr 14 06:52:48 UTC 2014


>From this description (the erratic conversation and looking up the skirt),
I would keep away from this guy and try to avoid interacting with him if I
saw this in the space. If I ran into people like this more often than not
at the space, I would come less often in general.


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Hannah Grimm <dharlette at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey folks,
> I've submitted a pull request to our github to ban Michael P.
>
> If anyone else (particularly the women of NB) want to chime in with a few
> words about how they feel about this, that would be excellent.  There's
> also some discussion going on on Slack.
>
> Hannah
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Hannah Grimm <dharlette at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks for adding your voice in, Lupita!
>>
>> Just for the record, I'm not the person he harassed; that was Naomi.  As
>> someone who's been harassed at NB before, and who *didn't* come forward
>> about it for a long time, I get how hard it can be to put yourself out
>> there to try to get rid of someone who's done something like that, so I'm
>> just trying to be as loud a voice for removing abusers as I can in the
>> hopes that the actual victim doesn't have to deal with this bullshit.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Lupita Berries <garyberries at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I think for the sake of all women feeling welcomed, he should have an
>>> unconditional ban. Even if Hannah herself doesn't want him to be banned, I
>>> think it sets up a bad environment where such harassing behavior is
>>> accepted, and sends out a larger unwelcoming message towards women at NB.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Hannah,
>>>>
>>>> On 13 April 2014 17:46, Hannah Grimm <dharlette at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Please ask him to leave.  I am not comfortable having someone who
>>>> treated
>>>> > Naomi with such extreme disrespect by looking up her skirt existing
>>>> in the
>>>> > space.  I do not care if he seems to be behaving fine to you as a guy
>>>> right
>>>> > now, his behavior is unacceptable and he cannot be at NB.
>>>> >
>>>> > If you're an asshole when you haven't slept, it's your responsibility
>>>> to get
>>>> > enough sleep to not be an asshole.  The same is true for people who
>>>> > willingly engage in substance abuse.
>>>>
>>>> Are you suggesting an unconditional, unbounded request to leave and not
>>>> return?
>>>>
>>>> Please jump into the #safe-space-wg on Slack and let's nut it out
>>>> quickly.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -a
>>>>
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>>
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