Someone mentioned this to me the other day, but I couldn't bring myself to go look it up.<\/p>\n
Luckily, Liz H has posted an excellent discussion of the whole episode<\/a> (read the comments on that entry too), along with useful links to various other people's comments. And links to the original post<\/a> and various followups; the original event as described by the original poster<\/em> (see below for a couple other people's descriptions) sounds both more innocuous in some ways and much creepier in other ways than I had assumed from the original description I heard.<\/p>\n I also like coffeeandink's response<\/a> (which includes the line \"Women spend THEIR ENTIRE LIVES IN SEXUALIZED SPACES\"). And there are some good comments in Tempest's initial entry<\/a> and her followup<\/a>. And plasticsturgeon suggests a followup: the Open Source African Hair Project<\/a>. (Hey, how about an Open Source Pregnant Women's Bellies Project too?) (Also tattoos<\/a>.)<\/p>\n (Okay, this is a tangent, but I can't resist: someone in the comments on that plasticsturgeon entry pointed to Rent-a-Negro.com<\/a>, which reminds me of the similarly entertaining Black People Love Us!<\/a> site.)<\/p>\n The FSFwiki has an excellent and detailed summary and set of links<\/a> for the whole discussion, including links to people who participated in the \"project\" either at the original con or at the second one where it happened; part of the problem was certainly the way that the original poster described things. See novapsyche's description of her experience<\/a>, for example, and netmouse's description of her experience<\/a> (plus the comments thread there).<\/p>\n Over at Metafilter, Pastabagel weighed in<\/a>. Although I think at the time of that posting they may not have known all the details of the original situation, I do love this line: \"Women aren't a collection of sex parts behind a security system that needs to be bypassed before you can access them.\"<\/p>\n And here's one of Anna's comments at feministing<\/a>: \"Touching and being touched is great. Why don't we start with all the guys at Cons who want to break down sexual taboos [...] encouraging and participating in non-sexual touching between men?\"<\/p>\n Finally, vito-excalibur posted a thought-provoking entry about the Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Program<\/a>--women rescuing women from unwanted attention. (Yes, there is a male auxiliary.) And shaysdays provides some suggestions on some rescue techniques<\/a>, along with some signs that may indicate someone could use some rescuing.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone mentioned this to me the other day, but I couldn’t bring myself to go look it up. Luckily, Liz…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}