I don't comment on Schwyzer's articles at all, generally, so I'm curious as to where you're getting this information. I do think that Schwyzer has taken responsibility for his past actions and in that, I can respect his growth. Has Ferret? I asked the question in my original comment out of sincerity.

Did he apologize for it? I don't mean his non-apology on his livejournal which amounted to 'sorry you guys are offended'. Has he expressed understanding as to why this was problematic?

I agree. My question was sincere.

Why did you change your user name?

My question at the end of my post wasn't factious. I am actually curious if the backlash to the OSBP did eventually change his view on what the issue was with the project. I followed the incident very closely when it came out and spend some time last night rereading his responses to his lj post on it, in which he came…

I don't necessarily agree about space, but I'm aware this is a contentious issue in feminist circles. I really do want to know if OSBP changed his mind about harassment — I spent some time rereading his response to the complaints about the project last night and there was no indication there that he got why it was so…

Where did I say he was worse than Schwyzer?

While this was a nice essay and all, I find it interesting that it's coming from the guy who both initiated the open source boob project, and couldn't understand why women at cons would feel threatened by groups of strangers walking around and asking women if they could grope them. I notice, in fact, that his essay…

Yeah, seriously. Feeling up the boobs of random women healed all his high school rejection. And the way he handled criticism of the project was really telling.

Except that you connected the two. This isn't a story about 'safety precautions'. Its a story about what women have been told after they've been raped. And you made a huge leap that if that one woman hadn't been drinking, she wouldn't have gotten raped — a leap, again, you have no way of proving.

So how does that explain women (or men, let's be fair) who get raped when they're not drunk. Not drinking doesn't magically protect you from predators.

Its a topic that every single woman of age in this country has heard over and over again. And yet women still get raped. If they were drinking. If they weren't drinking. If they were in jeans and sweatpants. If they wore make up. If the sun is up or if they get escorted home by the cops. Apparently, if they attend one…

Many colleges have their own police service (the officers at the five colleges are — or at least were when I attended — fully accredited Massachusetts police officers). They actively encourage students to call their public safety officers first and go through the college disciplinary system.

The rape is always the fault of the rapist. Full stop.

That's not what her blog implies — he posted the bikini shot first, figuring she wouldn't mind, and then posted the clothed photo after she contacted him. And then he convinced her to allow the photo to remain up.

Funny — in the couple of years of doing this, the only bite we had was also from a border collie mix. It got me in the face (and scared the shit out of me) and about a week later laid my husband's arm open when he was giving it a bath. I was ok, he needed a shitload of stitches.

I do foster work. My current household of dogs includes two large rotti mixes — easily identifiable as rottis — and one smaller beagle mix. I can not tell you how many times I get asked if they're pits. There are a lot of people out there that don't know anything about dogs that associate any 'scary' looking dog as a…

Again, this wasn't a picture the photographer took of her. He reposted this from her blog and didn't use the pictures she posed for.

They are mastifs and if I recall, there had been numerous complaints about the dogs before they attacked her. I agree — that was a real horrific story.

10 years ago, it was Rottis that people were scared of. And before that German Shepherds. And Dobermans. And Mastifs. 'Dangerous' dog breeds go through cycles like any other media story, often with little credible facts to back it up and a lot of sensationalism. Most reported dog bites come from Golden Retrievers —…