This is absolutely true, and strikes me as something that shouldn't be controversial in the least.
Part of the rage at SMOFs (at least within the circles I tend to frequent) is that there was (and is) a group of laregely-SMOF folks wagon-circling to deny that anything bad even happened at Readercon, and between that and the initial protection offered to RW, there's been very much a sense that one can get away with harassment if one is in the "club."
But that's no different than editors or professors getting away with it because of their positions of power, or even random people getting away with it because they know many things can come down to "he said/she said" situations (with any other pronoun combination possible there, of course). Anyone who thinks that harassers can only come from one group is sorely mistaken.
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This is absolutely true, and strikes me as something that shouldn't be controversial in the least.
Part of the rage at SMOFs (at least within the circles I tend to frequent) is that there was (and is) a group of laregely-SMOF folks wagon-circling to deny that anything bad even happened at Readercon, and between that and the initial protection offered to RW, there's been very much a sense that one can get away with harassment if one is in the "club."
But that's no different than editors or professors getting away with it because of their positions of power, or even random people getting away with it because they know many things can come down to "he said/she said" situations (with any other pronoun combination possible there, of course). Anyone who thinks that harassers can only come from one group is sorely mistaken.