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  1. >in a feminist safe space where the topic of the meeting is about the systematic culture of sexual assault and consent transgression on our campus, bringing up false rape accusations is inappropriate.
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  3. As much as I agree with most feminist positions, this attitude (which I have found far to prevalent in almost all feminist communities I have been a part of) has been the biggest turn off to my participation, and I imagine that of many others. When your forbid certain topics/opinions from being brought up in your space, you can no longer have a complete conversation, and you alienate potential participants. There are defiantly spaces where it is appropriate to do so (such as a support group), but dismissing a good-faith comment as inappropriate seems wildly inappropriate for a group about social change.
  4. By the account presented here, Dudebro 1 left the group with a false (and negative) perception of it. Additionally, the author actively rejected his attempt at a discourse on the subject, limiting her own exposure (and her group's exposure) to an alterntative point of view. That Dudebro 1 had been charged for sexual assault (wheather he is guilty or not), only strengthens the fact that he brings a unique perspective to the discussion.
  5. The argument that this idea is "triggering to survivors of sexual assault" would be valid if you were a support group, but you are a feminist (and I presume activist) group, simply because some people can not handle the conversation does not mean that the conversation is inappropriate.
  6. Of course, I could be misunderstanding the situation(s). If you are a feel-good group instead of an activist group, then your actions are fine (and there is nothing wrong with being a feel-good group). Similarly, if you had reason to believe these men were acting in bad-faith, your actions would be fine.
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