<story><title>Speaking up</title><url>http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2013/02/speaking-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>h2s</author><text>Not to mention the conspiracy theorist positing that it might have been a woman posting the fake porn pictures. The mental gymnastics some people will perform to avoid facing the obvious truth are amazing. How can we solve a problem we don&apos;t all admit exists?</text></item><item><author>timsally</author><text>Whenever an instance of blatant sexism comes up, an attempt is invariably made to rationalize away the fact that a sexist act has actually occurred. We have had two such attempts made here so far and I expect more. One commentator is attempting to advance the baseless theory that the bully did not care about the sex of his victim. This particular individual even goes so far to say that &quot;the biggest problem&quot; is the alleged misuse of labels related to racism or sexism, as if this could somehow be worse that the discrimination the disenfranchised experience on a day-to-day basis. Another commentator states that it is because of her popularity not her sex. This too is bunk. There are significantly more males in this industry with significantly more popularity. Yet no evidence is presented that these figures also have received this level of harassment.&lt;p&gt;There is one word for this behavior mentioned above: denial. Unfortunately, there seems to be a part of our community that refuses to call things what they are. This was an instance of sexism that manifested itself in a nasty way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nollidge</author><text>Also, it super doesn&apos;t matter what the gender of the person posting the pictures was. The gender of the actors &lt;i&gt;does not matter&lt;/i&gt; if the gender of the victim obviously &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Speaking up</title><url>http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2013/02/speaking-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>h2s</author><text>Not to mention the conspiracy theorist positing that it might have been a woman posting the fake porn pictures. The mental gymnastics some people will perform to avoid facing the obvious truth are amazing. How can we solve a problem we don&apos;t all admit exists?</text></item><item><author>timsally</author><text>Whenever an instance of blatant sexism comes up, an attempt is invariably made to rationalize away the fact that a sexist act has actually occurred. We have had two such attempts made here so far and I expect more. One commentator is attempting to advance the baseless theory that the bully did not care about the sex of his victim. This particular individual even goes so far to say that &quot;the biggest problem&quot; is the alleged misuse of labels related to racism or sexism, as if this could somehow be worse that the discrimination the disenfranchised experience on a day-to-day basis. Another commentator states that it is because of her popularity not her sex. This too is bunk. There are significantly more males in this industry with significantly more popularity. Yet no evidence is presented that these figures also have received this level of harassment.&lt;p&gt;There is one word for this behavior mentioned above: denial. Unfortunately, there seems to be a part of our community that refuses to call things what they are. This was an instance of sexism that manifested itself in a nasty way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>konstruktor</author><text>Why worry about the meaning of the terms you use when there is an opportunity to call somebody who disagrees with you names?</text></comment>