So just to clear something up, Hart Noecker was never an organizer for DontShootPDX. He's been involved with a few activist groups here in Portland, primarily BikeSwarm, which he was actually asked to leave a few years ago for centering the conversation on himself and making women in the group feel uncomfortable and…

Um, excuse me? Why is "fucked porn stars" part of a list of Schwyzer's disgusting abuses of power? That's incredibly offensive and backwards, for an otherwise thoughtful and powerful article.

when in Michigan he was very attracted to that type as well. I think I saw you mention later in the comments that everyone is curious about his Michigan days. I knew him before he went to Portland. He unfriended my husband because he had the gall to mention that Hart wasn't born vegan. It was as if HN rewrote…

Jonathon, your obsession with needing to hear so many intricacies of the situation here is disconcerting. While you write 'no victim blaming' as a way to defend yourself, you still are being inappropriate. And, you ARE victim blaming. By repeatedly asking Amy which she, and the rest of us chose to continue…

Oh wow! I am sickened that you had to go through that. What a god damned monster that guy is. It is incredibly sinnister to plot and plan the way he did and I cannot imagine the level of betrayal you and others felt. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart that you came forward. This was an eye opener for me…

Good article overall, but curious where you heard that Hart spearheaded Don't Shoot PDX? Because he doesn't. DSP is ran by black activists in Portland who already didn't like Noecker for other reasons. He has never played any sort of leadership role in DSP and was already on their shitlist even before this came out.

I paused for a long time before deciding to post this, for reasons that you will probably come to understand. I was quite shaken when I first heard about this. I hope that I can offer the victims some insight into the burgeoning assh@le that is Hart Noecker.

Thank you for writing this. I've dated a wolf (abuser) in sheep's clothing (feminist ally), and it's a truly chilling experience. I'm still struggling with the trauma I've absorbed because of it - night terrors, hypervigilance, anxiety, fear. He also claimed to be pro-choice, and in action was very much NOT. These men…

I get asked sometimes why I'm not loud&proud about it and I tell them it's because male feminists don't say that shit out loud if they're not either creepy or vaguely pathetic. Like:

I thought it was called Macktivism because of that time Mac tried to bang that chick at the anti-abortion rally (or something like that) on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

"Even among perfectly ethical men who are trying to identify as feminists and deprogram misogyny," Katherine said when I asked whether Noecker is an outlier, "they're still coming from a place of privilege. It's inherent, especially if you're straight and cis. There are extremes of this, like sociopathic abusers like…

This story hits so close to home it makes me deeply uncomfortable to read. My ex is like this, so closely similar that only the small details differ. He, too, is a self-identified radical feminist who disarms women with his story about growing up witnessing (and experiencing) terrible domestic violence at the hands of…

I went to high school with this guy. He was fine in school but we met up a few years later and he was insufferable. Ranting on and on about how horrible our home state was due to the lack of public transportation and it's restaurants' continued use of styrofoam containers. More recently he has friended another former…

Damn. I live in Portland too and this same situation is playing out with two other guys who hang around my community (dance music/artist types) trying to prey on people. Both pieces of garbage, one is of the emotionally abusive/stalker type and the other straight up incapacitates women with drugs and then assaults…

Thank you for this.

Oh man. Went on a date with that guy in 2008. He asked me out on MySpace about a month after I'd moved to Portland. He was so pretentious and when I didn't eagerly gobble down his bullshit about 35 mm photography he started negging me only to cap it off with stories about some ex-girlfriend that he was still into…

And men wonder why so many women don't trust them. It's not because we're evil, it's because the other men we've met before you are evil.

Disagree on this point:

There is more than a small chance that this rapist will never see the inside of a jail cell, however, his deceitful tactics have left him open to another kind of punishment. He's spent years grooming his identity, building his social networks, and gaining status and friends amongst his peers. If he gets off, his…

"what happens?"