<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Oh, absolutely. These incidents are happening either way. We can't address them if we don't hear about them. Just passing along an observation so you can be prepared. :)<br><br><div>--</div>(Sent from phone. Please excuse: brevity, top posting, hilarious autocorrections.)</div><div><br>On Oct 18, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Tom Ten Thij <<a href="mailto:tomtenthij@gmail.com">tomtenthij@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">One of our organizers (sorry, that'd be "organisers" to you) said she's discovered that having a reporting structure means you'll start hearing about a lot of incidents that otherwise would've just gone unaddressed.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Which I consider a beneficial outcome of this process. Victims should be encouraged to speak out in the safe knowledge that the perpetrators will have to face consequences of their unacceptable behaviour. The alternative is to risk victims feeling they can not go anywhere with their story, risk them to suffer in silence or leave the community.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I welcome this effort and am happy to help.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div></div>
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