<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">You mean one that someone said something about. How do you know that female visitors haven’t simply failed to return because of leering, mainsplaining, or various other behaviors? You don’t. The fact that you’re unwilling to even state a public policy against such things mean that when (not if but when) they happen, women won’t necessarily assume that the person is an outlier but that it is accepted behavior. Then they leave. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Really, it is like Diversity 101 here. You’ve never bothered to think about any of this stuff before from something other than your own point of view, have you?</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div> <div style="color:gray"><hr style="style:linear">From: <span style="color:black">Red Davies</span> <a href="mailto:noiddicle@gmail.com">Red Davies</a><br>Reply: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">January 26, 2014 at 7:56:18 PM</span><br>To: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> Re: [hackerspaces] Safe Space Policies? <br></span></div> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;">We've had one case of lecherous behavior towards a female guest.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></span></blockquote> <div id="bloop_sign_1390794882728328960" class="bloop_sign"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"></span>-- <br>Al Billings<br>http://makehacklearn.org<div><br></div></div></body></html>