On 8/2/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/2/07, Armed Blowfish
<diodontida.armata(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
* If we help SlimVirgin, we teach others that
they can and will get
help, making others less vulnerable. In addition, tolerace of
stalkers will only make it safe for them to stalk - the line needs to
be drawn on this.
Precisely. Why is this mailing list filling up with people sticking
the boot in at this time when a respected fellow editor needs our
support?
It's perfectly compatible to hold the opinions "I support SV" and "Why
the **** did you all blow the list up this morning with atrociously
inappropriate rape comparisons".
An indication of how wrong the comparison was is that we DID
effectively stop talking about the legitimate serious issues for a
whole day and argue about the commentary instead. The whole line of
discussion has done nothing but distract from the actual underlying
incident. I don't ascribe malice, but AB dropped an unrelated
drama-bomb into a very real and quite serious and legitimate
harrassment issue. And everyone pretty much took the bait.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com