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Re:Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons) by illuminate on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @03:15PM (#4387658)
"From a feminist perspective, it's not very empowering to a woman to have to resort to props and other crazy schemes to get unscrupulous men to fuck off. Men don't have to do it, why should women."

Like Hollaback, this is a very imperfect, but apparently effective solution. I appreciate your appeals to straw Feminism, but "women should react the same as men to every situation to 'prove' they are strong" is not it, it's a mess of privileged assumptions.

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Re:Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons) by FuzzyDunlop on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @07:02PM (#4388807)
It's not that they "should react the same", it's that - ideally - they shouldn't have to act differently to be treated equally.

I'll concede that imperfect but effective solutions are probably necessary to help foster this sort of equality in the long run, though, and the more people who step up and take responsibility for pushing the change (regardless of gender), the better.

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Re:Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons) by illuminate on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:51PM (#4389690)
"It's not that they "should react the same", it's that - ideally - they shouldn't have to act differently to be treated equally."

Totally. Putting your hands over your ears and eyes isn't going to get us to that point.

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