Agreed with Anna. That’s really inappropriate. How someone looks has nothing to do with how misogynistic or likely to harass they are.

It also feeds into the idea that the people doing the harassing/defending harassers are just “socially awkward”, “have trouble with girls”, or “probably just have Aspergers”. (Now, blaming harassment on people on the spectrum is common, and horribly, horribly ableist and FUCKING INCORRECT and people need to stop doing it.)

The whole “well they’re just awkward” thing also perpetuates a LOT of myths about sexual harassment itself. Namely, that it’s something that happens mostly because of innocent misunderstanding. Or, “that’s something only creepy people do, so those types are easy to spot and avoid”. This leads to a shit ton of victim blaming and also blaming the wrong people for the problem. Sexual harassment happens because of rape culture and the entitlement complex that comes with it. This obviously makes a policy to deal with it that much more important. People who harass need to know they won’t get away with their bullshit.

Its not begging to be said. Its better left unsaid and is really really innapropriate. Insulting someones appearance adds nothing to anything, its really demeaning and dismissive

If you are being a troll please stop

The friend of TF may have the sort of body language and interaction style that inhibits harassment. Harassers in part pick their targets based on whether they think they will get away with it.

Decades ago, I worked with a sales manager who never – never, by glance, movement, or words – acted inappropriately towards me. He was abruptly dismissed when he tried to play grab-ass with a newly hired office assistant. She shoved him away, marched right into HR and said, “You wouldn’t believe what ___ just did!” They believed her.

The investigation revealed that he had been sexually harassing most of the female production techs ever since his hiring. But he never viewed me as prey, never viewed me as someone he could safely harass. So he planed it safe.

So why is this issue getting such resistance from Thunderf00t?

Prevention beats intervention, and the appropriate and mature thing to prevent most of the harassment is to make the conference’s stance on harassment (sexual, racial, etc.) clear and unambiguous.

You know, like with a written policy about it, and procedures to follow if/when it happens so that everyone is on the same page, has the same information, and everyone knows what to do.

It should be right in there with the how to call emergency medical assistance policy and procedures.

TF appears be a one-way skeptic that is, one who does not look with a skeptical eye at his own views.

How did he get invited to ftb what is the process? .