> "I find it very hard to believe it is common for women to get sexually assaulted at a tech conferences" And that's the crazy part. It doesn't make sense. You

> "I find it very hard to believe it is common for women to get sexually assaulted at a tech conferences" And that's the crazy part. It doesn't make sense. You've got intelligent folks, not the dregs of society or anything, and yet, it is common. I attended a tech conference earlier this year in which one of the attendees set up an open space to discuss "invisible diversity" (transgender / genderqueer, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, etc.). 1/10th of the conference's attendees presented as non-male, while 1/2 of this particular open space presented as non-male, which seems to indicate that it touched on a subject of particular interest to folks that didn't fit into the white, cisgendered, male majority. More interestingly, most of the non-male individuals in attendance explicitly stated that they felt sexually threatened at most conferences. Crazy, right? But when someone makes that claim, and sufficiently many others offer their assent and echo the claims, then I'm left having to believe that, yes, those things do happen, and at a far greater rate than is directly visible to you or I.