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Sep. 13th, 2012 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ann_leckieHaven't posted in a while. I fully intended to write about WorldCon, but honestly when I got back I was completely social-interactioned out, and the SFWA meetings had generated a fair amount of work that needed doing, and the whole book deal thing had become real and solid in my mind, leading to some amount of terror over the prospect of producing a novel on an actual deadline with actual stakes.
In the meantime I do not have the energy to rant about the whole continuing black hole of fail that is the Readercon/SMOF thing, though oh are some rants called for. So instead I will post these links:
Crap People Say About Sexual Harassment by the ever-awesome![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jimhines
Once Upon a Time bydsmoen
Look, firing whistleblowers or people who file harassment complaints and then claiming it was because of "poor performance" and their accusations are just them being bitter is the oldest fucking dodge in the book. Pointing to someone accused of bad behavior and saying, "Look, they're the nicest person ever and have only ever said or done nice things in my presence!" does not in fact constitute proof that said someone is in fact constitutionally incapable of doing bad things. It certainly doesn't outweigh actual testimony from people who were actually present and saw the shit go down.
And being called out on doing bad stuff? Is not harassment.
Okay, back to the research mines.
In the meantime I do not have the energy to rant about the whole continuing black hole of fail that is the Readercon/SMOF thing, though oh are some rants called for. So instead I will post these links:
Crap People Say About Sexual Harassment by the ever-awesome
jimhinesOnce Upon a Time by
dsmoenLook, firing whistleblowers or people who file harassment complaints and then claiming it was because of "poor performance" and their accusations are just them being bitter is the oldest fucking dodge in the book. Pointing to someone accused of bad behavior and saying, "Look, they're the nicest person ever and have only ever said or done nice things in my presence!" does not in fact constitute proof that said someone is in fact constitutionally incapable of doing bad things. It certainly doesn't outweigh actual testimony from people who were actually present and saw the shit go down.
And being called out on doing bad stuff? Is not harassment.
Okay, back to the research mines.