I'm just saying that if women poets want to stop jerks from harassing them at conferences, after-reading parties, or conventions, they need to start naming names and publicly shaming the perpetrators. I don't mean hearsay or second-hand talk; I mean women who have personally been approached in an inappropriate manner. Asking men to police themselves is just a little much, though perhaps a dim bulb is coming on in some heads. All I could add from my own experience is that I was once annoyed and made uncomfortable by an older man coming on to me at a writers conference. I told him to bugger off.
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