Extra Extra: Freaks flaunt freaky actions at Con!

[Multi-Hobbyist]

So, some of you may have attended NYCC. Some of you may have heard the story regarding a caboodle of creepers crawling around the event asking female participants for a moment of their time. For those who are unaware, here's the LSS -

Solitary male interviewer with an accompanying film crew ask unassuming female cosplayers for an "interview". Once alone the guys begin to make unwarranted remarks, ranging from sexual commentary to derogatory/demeaning statements and general off-putting observations.

My questions, for those of you who still have hope in humanity, is this;
Do you believe these men to be misguided simpletons for doing what they do to get a rise out of an audience with their "shock humour"? Or are they degenerates who should know better at their age for their actions? And to follow up, how would YOU correct their course for the better?

I request that we leave extreme violence against them off the text field, as I'm sure we already know some of you would like to resort to such drastic measures.
If I were in the situation (female or not) I would have kept a level-head. The moment this pity party turned off all cameras, I'd have asked for a card (as one con-goer did manage to obtain.) From there, maybe in the heat of the moment, demolish the camera against one of their faces. I mean, I feel they DO deserve a smidge of sensical maturity smacked into 'em. Bear in mind these guys aren't exactly a Syndicated TV station, just a bunch of nobodies with a Sirius radio and YT channel.



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[IllumInaTIma]

Well, extreme violence would mean broken limbs, concussion and something that would leave them disabled for live. Simply beating the shit out them and breaking their noses wouldn't constitute extreme violence, so there.

 

[Queen Michael]

Fine them every penny they own.

 

[JoJo]

To be honest, from the blog they sounded like just your garden variety dicks and/or trolls, sad but nothing worth getting into a fight over.

 

[DataSnake]

It's jackasses like that who are the reason more women don't go to these gatherings in the first place. As for how to handle the situation, I'll let Black Hat Guy field that one:

Spoiler: Black Hat Guy?

Thanks, Black Hat Guy.

 

[EeveeElectro]

*blood boils*

Kick them in the dick.

Not-so-much joking aside, alert a security guard. Keep an eye on them approaching other girls, then approach the girls after and ask if they had been lewd to them too. Go to a guard together. I would have taken a picture of them and a business card and acted very interested in what they were doing.
Then I'd get the other girls to spread it around the Internet, contact the organisers of the con with pictures and get them banned from attending any more of their cons.

I'd want to follow them outside and kick them so hard in the balls their grand-kids feel it. If I had to experience that, I'd be fuming. Telling them "don't be a creep" isn't enough. Same girls for girls who creep on guys. If I ever got creeped on, they better prepare for a punch in the face.

Makes me sad I just missed the creeps that rounded on my boyfriend while I was at Telford...

 

[Realitycrash]

Kick them out. They are hassling other convent-goers, how exactly is this a big problem to handle? Kick them the fuck out.

 

[Legion]

Take out a camera/camera phone, take their picture, show it to security. If they are still in the vicinity, point them out to security.

A boring and rational response, but considering creepiness isn't a crime (I am assuming they are not stalking/following people here), but physical violence is. If some guy asked you an inappropriate question and you hit them, you'd be the one getting arrested, not them.

Let security do their jobs, and then nobody else has to put up with them either.

 

[grey_space]

Call Security. They were harassing Con-goers. As soon as their 'interview' made a legitimate paying guest of the convention uncomfortable they should be told to GTFO by convention staff.

A vaguely similar situation happened to me at work a few years ago. We were alerted to an older man in a suit taking pictures of various girls who were in our bar drinking before they went clubbing (ie the girls were all dolled up, wearing clubwear, makeup, etc.). A few of them were pretty freaked out as it seems he was kinda in their faces about it.

I approached him and asked him what the story was.

'Oh I'm just taking pictures of the pretty girls'
'Why?'
'I like pictures of the pretty girls'
'Do you know them?'
'No I just think they are pretty.'

'Ah. I see...[points to door] Get the fuck out.'

Failing the convention staff doing anything, kick them in the dick.

 

[Dunhart]

I find threads like these very disconcerting. Not only because of the patronizing attitude that seems to imply that women are unable to take care of their own problems or report people who harass them to the security and therefore need extra protection and people getting outraged at their attackers on online forums, but also because these 'corrective measures' against the attacking males are often way worse than the original offence.

This is just as sexist (if not more) as harassing female cosplayers at a convention, people. I don't hold with any sort of mean behaviour against fellow humans and I agree that people who engage in that sort of thing deserve to be escorted out of the premises but this isn't exactly healthy either.

 

[mitchell271]

To (somewhat) quote Anton LeVey, "[Give] kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates".
For these guys, the best course of action would be to act innocent and dumb, then smash their camera against the ground. Oh, wouldn't that be fun.

For the record, I'd do the same thing to KassemG. Christ that guy is annoying.

 

[Kinguendo]

Anger is a gift, use it.

Be creative and intelligent about it if you like, but acting quickly will fall under provocation and provocation IS a valid defence in a court of law... Just putting that out there. Hell, you can literally get away with murder if you have endured enough.

 

[Kinguendo]

So, apparently, the only way to smash the patriarchy is to smash mens' testicles until they stop being sexist!

Wow, I never knew it would be so simple!

Well, testosterone is an annoying chemical... and it does come from the plums. And the adrenal glands but mostly... its the plums.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Que the "victim-blaming" accusations here, I don't care. This shit pisses me off. When women like this play the sexual harassment card. It does nothing but fucking demean the victims of actual fucking sexual harassment.

So you get pulled into a shitty interview by a couple of pricks who make juvenile jokes. Walk away, inform security, end of fucking story. Don't try to make this out as anything more serious than that. This reeks of people who had drunk sex and then cry rape the next day. It's disgusting to use something that genuinely affects other people in a horrible way to fuel your own (very minor in comparison) problems.

And yeah, I'm an asshole, victim blamer, etc etc etc.

 

[Amir Kondori]

OK, so I thought this was about the other article with the creepy things cosplayers have had said to them.