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Will 2017 be remembered for the empowered women coming out of the shadows of abuse?

Have to agree on that one. ^^
Not to be insensitive, but there is actually a rising opposite problem.

Are you a woman? Did a MAN at the checkout stand not give you a discount when you asked him to?

Point a finger and accuse him of trying to molest you. That will show him. Now his life is ruined forever. He’s all over the media as a sexual assaulter, and now EVEN IF he’s found as innocent (Which wouldn’t happen if we stop asking for evidence), that media coverage has lost him his job and you think he’s going to be able to find another one any time soon? Wrong.

Sound exaggerated? So is many of the other statistics, but they get people riled up, which causes people to band together, and then more and more people believe the statistics.

Unfortunately, the people who are the “problem” are much more visible than the ones who are not. Just like shooters- people think anybody with a gun is a bad guy, but if you actually look at how many people that legally own guns shoot other people? It’s essentially 0. It goes the same way- how many times have you seen on the news “Let’s praise this man because he has NEVER harmed or sexually assaulted a woman.” - I’ll take a bet and say never. Not because it doesn’t happen, but because people only look at people that cause problems, and then think that’s the only type of person in the world.

The problem: How do determine a false accusation vs a real assault?
And like Big Al pointed out- the definition of assault has changed drastically over time. Innocent men are afraid their elbow might brush against the BARE SKIN of the arm of a woman on the Subway and they’ll be arrested for assault.

Not all men are good, or innocent. But neither are women, unfortunately. We’re all people and some people are bad, regardless of gender. So you can’t just arrest a man because a woman said he did something bad.

I wish we lived in a world where we could trust what somebody said just like that- but in that world, we probably wouldn’t have the initial problem anyway.

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What do you honestly think would happen if the help community actually met in person?

soco wrote:

Aria wrote:
Or, I'd try to combat my nerves by getting seriously drunk, which would result in me talking far too much and bursting into tears of "I love you, why won't you love me?!?"

And then I'd be reminded of why I shouldn't drink in front of anyone except for my parents, and my dog.

You drink in front of your parents...? Like why!? I think I can speak for most of the drinkers here - we drink to forget our parents for like 2,3 hours.

I don't! But still- would NOT drink in front of my parents... That gets awkward. 😄

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What do you honestly think would happen if the help community actually met in person?

soco wrote:

Ameliorate wrote:
Sure we will be able to get something rolling.

So its settled... We will all meet at a bowling alley at a neutural location equal distance for everyone, say the east coast of Russia.

There’s an activity I’ll attend! 😄
Not sure about Russia though. Pretty sure our average location is the middle of the ocean, thanks to our UK users. 😉

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post closed post closed Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving. 😊

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What do you honestly think would happen if the help community actually met in person?

We’d all sit quietly. And awkwardly try to socialize with each other.
I’m pretty sure at least 85% of us is socially inept to some degree. 😄

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Help-QA is now running HTTPS!

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Help-QA is now running HTTPS!

Nothing most users will notice.

The main benefit is that it now encrypts all communication between your computer and the server, which is a fancy way of saying that in the off-chance there is a hacker watching the communication to/from the server, they won't be able to tell what's happening because everything gets jumbled up and hard to read.

No- it won't invite hackers to try to break in any more than it did previously. (Hopefully less, if anything, because of the jumble-ness listed above)

Another side-benefit is that Search Engines (like Google) tend to appreciate sites that have SSL certificates installed, and will therefore give us more SEO points. 🎉

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Help-QA is now running HTTPS!

And we're back to HTTPS. If anybody experiences any issues, please let me know. 😄

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Help-QA is now running HTTPS!

You're welcome! For... Fixing the problem I caused. 😅

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Can we get https?

Granted!

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