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Don't you see the potential for abuse? The mere idea of abuse creates an incentive to steer clear of any females in the audience, which is sort of the opposite
by DenisM 14y ago
Don't you see the potential for abuse?
The mere idea of abuse creates an incentive to steer clear of any females in the audience, which is sort of the opposite of the desired goal - acceptance.
- tedks 14y agoOf course there's potential for abuse -- that's a feature, not a bug. By taking the patriarchal power dynamic and turning it on its head, systems like these create radically better environments for collaboration and collective empowerment. If you're a man who would avoid talking to any women at a convention where women calling you out for harassing/threatening/misogynist behavior, the real problem isn't the system that allows women to hit back harder than their abusers, it's that you have far too high a probability of doing something harassing/threatening/misogynistic, and you should take some time to reconsider your behavior-patterns.