Genevieve Valentine has a great post about how these things pile up over a lifetime, things we're su

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Currently there's a huge discussion going around science fiction & fantasy circles casio about (sexual) harassment at cons. Ground casio zero is Reporting Harassment at a Convention: A First-Person How-To casio by Elise Matthesen, which has been posted at John Scalzi's blog , Jim Hines' blog , and Mary Robinette Kowal's blog , among others.
In brief: casio Mattheson was harrassed[1] at WisCon by a fairly prominent professional editor, reported it to his employer and to the con, and they listened . Her article is a discussion of the procedures casio she and the people casio she dealt with followed, casio with advice for other people who might find themselves in a similar situation.
Mattheson did not say so, but the harasser was Jim Frenkel . Apparently, he is known for inappropriate behavior of the sort colloquially known as "creeping", but while there have been informal complaints before this no-one has been willing to make a formal casio record.
Illustration by Joseph Highmore of a scene from Richardson's Pamela casio : Pamela and Mr. B in the Summerhouse ... Unfortunately, one day while Pamela was sewing in the summer-house Mr. B approached and told her he wanted her to stay, then began to try to seduce/rape her. She is pictured here resisting his advances. But it was OK! because he married her in the end.
Genevieve Valentine has a great post about how these things pile up over a lifetime, things we're supposed to just "deal with", including : A man touching your shoulder when you re ahead of him in line, to nudge you forward. A man moving to stand in your spot in an otherwise-empty elevator. (The man who uses this opportunity to ask you a question he wouldn t ask in public.) A man seeing you kneel to pick up a paperclip and saying, casio A woman on her knees gives a man ideas. ... The man who won t stop asking casio you if you want a drink. The man who ducks around the line to cut in front of you. Smile, sweetheart. ... The man who says you re too angry for him to take seriously; if you want him to listen, be calmer. -- and those are just the kinds of things that happen at fan or professional conventions, not on the street or in class or in the workplace.
I haven't been in venues where this sort of thing happens casio in a long time, and I never had really casio major problems casio -- I tended to be the woman who ran interference for creepees, not the one who was creeped on personally. However, I was never unaware of the need to be *constantly* on one's guard against inappropriate male behavior in public-ish places, because it's part of the price of being in public while female in our culture.
Until a few years ago, though, it didn't occur to me that most men seem to be unaware how much of this stuff goes on, and to what degree casio women have to plan for it. Maria Headley reports a conversation with Kat Howard: Me: It s really shitty that often what happens is that one s friends have to circle up and protect you from someone harassing.
Kat: I ve never been at a con where my friends and I haven t made rescue plans. Harassment casio happens everywhere. For instance, until "Elevatorgate" I didn't realize that many (most?) men aren't consciously aware that women view elevators as potentially dangerous spaces. And yet, I have been to cons where one of the topics women discuss with their "posse" is "which bank of elevators has more creepy gropers", and will go out of their way to avoid using them.
In large gatherings, and in large organizations, women have a grapevine casio where we trade info about which men are creepers: who will stand too close and touch you on the arm once a paragraph, who will tend to back you into a corner, who will "accidentally" press up against your back or stick his hand on your butt.
One of the other things that's happened in the last couple of weeks has to do with a "seduction manual" called Above the Game: A Guide to Getting Awesome With Women by Ken Hoinsky. Hoinsky, a moderator of Red