On 8/2/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/2/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@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.