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I have a sneaking suspicion that the "It's not my problem unless it's in my face" attitude would utterly evaporate should he catch wind of a rumor of straight conservative Christian white dudes facing harassment for their beliefs at a convention.

Guys, this isn't even out of context. He actually meant it to sound exactly the way it sounds.

Spoken like a true member of a community.

This is what's standing in the way, folks. It isn't people who like harassment. It isn't people who like to make insensitive jokes. It isn't people who enable those who treat women poorly. It's a massive, frustrated, bitter segment of primarily American culture, and it's from this core set of...

It boggles my mind that there are still people who believe that the solution to societal ills is to apply the same behaviors, attitude, and logic towards all possible groups of people.

You're really asking for trouble making "jokes" like that. You may see removal from the event as an extreme response, but others won't. And I guarantee that the memory of being kicked out of an event will stay your tongue the next time a "joke" like that starts bouncing around inside your head...

I don't know what to tell you other than that you should be paying closer attention. He's made a number of posts discussing the issues at length. You're free to look through his posting history. That aside, sarcasm is part of that "critical spotlight" I referred to.

This, precisely. When someone clearly isn't being honest about their motivations or intentions but insists on participating in the discussion anyway, the best approach is to shine a critical spotlight on what they're saying. You can't change their mind, but you can change the minds of those...

I think that about sums it up, yep.

The guidelines I described are for resolving harassment claims. I'm not sure what you're trying to show, here.

What? This is about resolving conflict. The best way to resolve the conflict we're talking about is to remove the person accused of harassment from the event. That's all. This holds true whether it's from the perspective of the event manager/coordinator/organizer, the person being harassed, or...

I'm surprised you need a reason for this, but I'll give you the simple and straightforward one: Event managers have a job to do, and that job involves making sure the event runs successfully. An event that is disrupted by conflict (no matter the kind) is not as successful as it could be...

This would certainly help, but it isn't enough on its own. Many places won't have them in place, coverage angles probably won't be ideal, audio will be lost in the noise of con halls which means this does little or nothing to address evidence of verbal harassment, etc. It's one step among many...

We already have a problem with harassment being underreported. This will only make it worse. Many women would undoubtedly choose not to report even moderate harassment incidents because they don't want to deal with the disruption it might cause if they can't show evidence of it taking place...

You're on a public forum. You are allowed to judge, and others are allowed to judge you, including them judging you for how you judge other people. That's how this works. You don't get to show up, judge a bunch of people, and then say "Don't judge me, I'm entitled to my own beliefs, you don't...

Oh my god

This isn't a level-headed viewpoint. You can certainly believe that some things said on sites like Tumblr as facts may be suspect, but starting out with a default assumption of "People literally fabricated 3000 incidents of harassment just to start a conversation!" is just ridiculous.

I'd talk about you in the second person but you keep telling me you're not saying anything to me. Heck, I'd talk about you in the first person if you'd like, but honestly I'm not sure I'm capable of roleplaying you.

How dare they give their customers what they want! Those degenerates!

And, of course, companies are discovering that there is money to be made by being more inclusive - one of the reasons that the genie won't be put back in the bottle, so to speak. The world will never be the comfortable, empowering place for bigoted white dudes it once was, and gaming is no...