so i think the actual story here was "we were somehow missing an entire parallel grapevine for reporting sexual assault allegations among EAs, targeted at people who were mistrustful of EA"
(also "you cannot actually control who calls themselves an EA")
good to discover that blindspot and relations do seem to be thawing a bit
the poly thing seems completely unhelpful to me if people could stop insinuating demographics im part of are suspicious and predatory that'd be great thx
also: how common is the CEA/community health teams thing of "we will not take action on what you've said even if we're really disturbed by it unless you want us to"?
I suspect pop feminism has a pretty wrongheaded idea of why a lot of this stuff goes unreported
lets maintain a sense of proportion mk
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RT @alexandrabotez
Over the years I’ve heard many stories from girls in the chess community regarding often prominent men in our industry. When encouraged to speak up, most are worried that the backlash and lack of consequences will render doing so pointless. 1/5 https://twitter.com/jenshahade/status/1625873098581983232
https://twitter.com/alexandrabotez/status/1625993900690182144
I think putting this front and centre is critical enough that I'm happy to call it the difference between a team that is serious and one that is there for PR purposes