I had an epiphany last night while reading A+. I can actually see a need for an anti-harassment policy, strictly enforced, at conventions.
There's a petition circulating. . now I didn't sign it because I'm not planning on attending any of these rape fests in the near future however if you are planning on going, you might what to add your voice.
Suppose, just suppose, you want to make a joke. You think long and hard about how this joke may be perceived at the conference. You think it's kind of cute, kind of clever and you may have spent hours writing it for someone in particular.
You tell your joke without offending the recipient
HOWEVER !
A special snowflake hears it and applies higher level social justice
reasoning thinking logic whatever to it and twists it into something so odious, something so offensive that you're out on your ass because that special snowflake is waving the anti-harassment policy around and demanding disciplinary action.
Ha ha, you say, Stout, you funny guy, nobody's that stoopid.
May I present to you that very scenario
happening only yesterday over on A+