[hackerspaces] Safe Space Policies?

Volatile Compound volatilecompound at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 05:00:17 CET 2014


So what you're saying is that hackerspaces should conduct exit 
interviews when new people leave after their first visit?

- skroo.

On 1/26/14, 7:56 PM, Al Billings wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
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>> We've had one case of lecherous behavior towards a female guest.
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