[DJ Grothe] gave a pretty insulting response to my message about the threats the other day and has not replied since. I think this is not the right way to treat an invited speaker, no matter how irritated you are. Clearly he made a mistake in inviting me, but that’s hardly my fault.

I think it’s pretty obvious that some attendees are primed to despise me, and not because of posts at FTB so much as because of what you said about that group of women that includes me. (For the record, I hadn’t said anything about a scary atmosphere for women at TAM when you said what you did, not least because I had no opinions on the subject.)

I’ve felt, ever since you made those comments, that you’d put a (metaphorical) target on me. You haven’t done anything to take it off. That makes the event incredibly uncomfortable for me. The addition of threats or weird creepy threat-like “advice” just makes it impossible. I don’t feel welcome, and I don’t think I would have a good time. I don’t feel like being anxious about my safety on top of that.

It’s nice that Dawkins, Krauss and Jillette were treated respectfully at TAM, but I can’t help noticing some differences between them and me. They’re men. They’re Names. They don’t piss off angry misogynists.

What is there about the CSICon policy that isn't already covered by state law?

We now know that there were no upskirt photographs.

We now know that Ophelia Benson did not receive threatening emails (she received a couple of earnest, concerned emails from people who were on her side ... unless the emails were actually intended as parodies).

I think we should suspend judgment as to whether there was ever an Elevator Guy or a conversation in a lift in Dublin - we need more evidence as to what, if anything, took place that night.