I will give an anecdote about this very listserv: I was very severely sexually harassed as a college student posting about a film screening in 2008. It was for a well-known experimental filmmaker. The response to my post involved "oh, you don't know what you're talking about and I bet you can shut up and stick a dick in your mouth." This persisted for several posts (becoming increasingly graphic), some just to me, some to the whole list - I'm not sure what prompted such a reaction from this stranger. Scott was kind enough to delete these posts from the archives out of respect and block this person from Frameworks, but as a young person first entering the experimental film community (it was my first post on Frameworks), I was shaken. Some people policed it and stood up for me then, but Scott made it go away very quickly. So yes, this happens in our community, and yes, this happens on this listserv. I wish it weren't the case.
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