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I have been stalked and harassed and threatened for years by the mens rights wackos. 2 different stalkers have been convicted of felonies for it. https://www.salon.com/2020/07/21/feminists-have-warned-us--and-now-another-mens-rights-activist-turns-to-murder/
Journalists covered it multiple times. I pleaded with Stanford to put enhanced security on my office. I asked for some way of seeing who was outside my office, and for a panic button. Getting any help took weeks. I stopped using my own office. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2018-was-the-year-of-online-hate-meet-the-people-whose-lives-it-changed/2018/12/28/95ac0558-f7dd-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html
The Men's Rights Activists and people who repeated their nonsense -- which included many Stanford-connected alumni and former administratrators, without a doubt, continued to whip misogynist and hateful sentiment about me. I had to engage multiple lawyers, was constantly afraid.
Now we learn that the call was always coming from inside the house. Two different heads of the @StanfordAlumni association, and former administrators were involved in spreading fringe untrue information about me personally that further inflamed harassers. https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/07/16/former-stanford-general-counsel-shared-material-from-group-that-claims-that-brock-turner-was-innocent/
So, while I was pleading with @Stanford for security, high-ranking @Stanford connected people were further targeting me, including a colleague, who sent email claiming to speak for @Stanford about what an embarrassment I was which I believe further endangered me.
When I was stalked and sent suspicious powder by an individual who was convicted of a felony for it, some of my colleagues didn't even sign a letter of support. @Stanford did not assign security. I was left to open my mail outside, alone, with no help. https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/10/18/man-pleads-guilty-to-sending-white-powder-threat-to-michele-dauber/
That's probably because a lot of @Stanford administrators, probably believed the fringe men's rights conspiracy theories being pushed by other Stanford former administrators and @StanfordAlumni leaders.
The misogynist call was coming from inside the house.
The misogynist call was coming from inside the house.
My opinion after 20 years of this is that @Stanford-connected people declare open season on women who step out of line and the University takes a very passive stance allowing it to continue. That increased the danger in my life exponentially.
Misogyny is real and institutional.
Misogyny is real and institutional.
If you think this kind of violence is just generated by a few tin foil hat randoms you are making a big mistake. Institutions send the message that women can be safely targeted. I am not the only female faculty member @stanford who feels this way. I am just the only one talking.
I am being very direct about this now because I have cancer. Young women scholars need to know that if you are targeted like this, you are on your own.
No one is coming to help you. In fact, your institution might be participating in the harm. You are not crazy. This is real.
No one is coming to help you. In fact, your institution might be participating in the harm. You are not crazy. This is real.
None of this is secret. When I no longer felt safe in my office, I started posting hate mail and threats on my door. There was even a viral video about it. EVERYONE KNEW. Yet I had to plead for security.
Women: You feel alone because you are. https://nowthisnews.com/videos/her/michele-dauber-receives-threats-for-trying-to-unseat-aaron-persky
Women: You feel alone because you are. https://nowthisnews.com/videos/her/michele-dauber-receives-threats-for-trying-to-unseat-aaron-persky
I recall one meeting in particular with the @Stanford "threat assessment" team of three men that kept telling me that they doubted one particular person was dangerous even though there was a mile long trail of anti-woman internet postings.
Did they care if I was killed?
Did they care if I was killed?
I eventually won that fight by telling them that I was simply creating a paper trail in case this person shot up my classroom so that the parents of the children who were killed incidentally would be able to sue Stanford and win.
Did they care what happened to me?
Did they care what happened to me?
It's not just the men's rights crazies. It's that institutions treat them as jokes and assume them to be non-dangerous. I don't know how many women have to die before men's rights wackos are treated as the threat they are. Probably all of us.
