something that strikes me about this

it reminds me of that brony story a while back, about the dude who was allegedly stalking some little girl at a family-friendly pony convention

and the brony community went into super damage control mode

much like a lot of dudes are doing right now

i don’t understand why the reaction is to deny all association rather than to come out and say “who the fuck is this asshole, we are going to root him out and make an example of him so this never happens again”

there’s so much pride in one’s group identity tangled up in all this, but it’s never used to make the group better; the lines are just shuffled around a bit to make the individual look better