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3y ago
We can simultaneously both blame rapists and have effective safeguarding policy that minimizes the risk of rapists getting access to victims. As an example, prisons almost always have a policy of sex segregation, with separate estates for
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3y ago
Yes, this was mob of disrespectful, intrusive men taking advantage of the situation, as men often do. I agree with you on this and I'm not sure why you read my comment as acceptance of their behavior. However, if the organizers want to
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3y ago
I see the original error, back in 2022, as the event organizers opening the conference to people who call themselves 'non-binary', as this implicitly made the event centered around 'gender identities' rather than the fem
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3y ago
If the policy isn't also to blame, what's to stop the same mass intrusion of males happening again next year? Your 'gender identity' is literally the words you say or the box you tick when asked what your 'gender id
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3y ago
The policy of the conference is to blame too. Up to 2021, it was a women-only event. Then in 2022 the organizers decided to open it to people who call themselves 'non-binary' as well, therefore implicitly making the event about &#