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There's nothing wrong with a polite no if you feel uncomfortable. That's something else to add to awareness if someone creates a list. Listen to your instincts.

I agree, most all sexual crimes are tough to prosecute, even with DNA (it could be argued that the sex was consensual). I'm not saying don't call the police if a law is broken, only that the odds of a court actually getting a guilty verdict on a guilty person without good evidence is almost...

I agree, if anyone is accompanying women to their rooms it should be people they choose because they're comfortable around them. Also it's probably best to pick more than one. Not knocking women's judgement, all people have their shortsights and misjudge people. It's probably best to have...

You said that you wanted help creating an anti-harassment policy aimed at reducing/eliminating harassment/assault/rape of women. How hard would it be to modify that policy to include everyone, not just women?

You can keep your own score but the actual scoreboard has you making two incorrect assumptions right off the bat then refusing to discuss the topic further. I'm sorry this conversation didn't go your way.

Even after pointing out that you're not considering the context you still choose to fire blindly. No, I wasn't suggesting an equal number of male only and female only tables either...

I agree, no use playing a game you're not very good at and don't appear to enjoy.

So you want help creating an anti-harassment policy that's aim is to prevent women from getting harassed? How much work do you think it'd take to have that same anti-harassment policy just encompass everyone?

If men and women are treated equally why is the distinction of majority/minority relevant? I guess at this point this part should be put on hold because I'd just argue what I'm arguing above - that we should threat men and women the same. If that's done, then their either both get gendered...

At that point I think our focus shouldn't be on the fact that the women didn't find a table to play at, its why, out of an entire convention that they couldn't find a table to play at. Is this an honest concern of yours, that a convention will turn out this way? So then there's no issue with...

And yet you still made incorrect assumptions. That should tell you something about your current perception on this issue.

Agreed, lets leave gender out of this and focus on bad behavior.

It's probably best to keep highly controversial political topics out of an event that has nothing to do with it. I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with you, but that's just not the time or the place. No, you shouldn't be kicked out unless you kept trying to create a scene by not dropping...

How does treating everyone equally right here and right now not address/redress existing inequality? Can you give a specific example? What's socially retarded about a male only table? I asked what do those few socially retarded men have to do with male only tables and your response was male...

I meant exactly what I said. While the whole GamerGate thing was going on there was a large portion of the community that was concerned about ethics and preached against harassment or even the mention of certain other individuals as it wasn't tied to ethics. I made the estimation of "large"...

Lets be honest, you haven't seen all the critique videos so you can't possibly know which have been debunked. Which have you watched? Maybe we've seen the same ones. The first video dealt with "why are you so angry" and I figured since the people in question actually have made critique...

Pretty much the entire post. You let your bias color your opinion before you even read what I actually typed and that's why your first post had two incorrect assumptions.

Calls to treat everyone the same come from seeing that inequality currently exists and needs to be corrected, so why are you starting from the position of "If we ignore existing inequality"? Then you're saying that the reason why some males acting like socially retarded idiots is a factor in...

After your first two assumptions missed you weren't shy about making a third. Kudos.

You don't even know who I'm talking about or what videos I'm talking about, so how can you even make such a statement? I never said I did have a problem with an open conversation about harassment. In fact I've already said that this has raised awareness in me and I'm going to be trying to...