Oh No, Not Again
| July 13th, 2007I wasn’t going to comment any more on Clint Heine, but his comment threads get worse. SimonD said:
I want to offer a job for Maia in K’Rd. My massage parlor needs 2 women to dance nude on stage.Does anyone know Maia’s full name? I want to forward the job offer to WINZ, so they can get registered unemployed people like Maia to apply. I know WINZ doesn’t like unemployed people who are registered with them to decline a job offer (any jobs really). So, there is a chance that Maia will take my offer.
For those who don’t know the NZ benefit system, if you turn down a job you can go on a benefit stand-down for up to 13 weeks. So people on benefits can’t turn down work.
SimonD wants to coerce me into sex-work by cutting off my other forms of income.*
Clint Heine’s objection to this isn’t based on my right to my own body:
If her blog is accurate I do believe she is already well known to the WINZ staff in her area. I somewhat doubt you’d want somebody like her in with your lovely girls. :)
I’m proud to say that he’s right. If I was to work on K’Rd I’d educate, agitate and organise, and SimonD wouldn’t know what hit him.
But the point here is that coercing a woman to work in the sex industry by cutting off her other forms of income is rape. These clearly men view women as objects to be used by them, and my desire is irrelevant. This is the second time a man on Clint Heine’s blog has expressed a desire to punish me with sex, and Clint Heine has no problem with that at all.
* In reality WINZ do not require women to accept jobs in the sex industry.
July 13th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Oh my God, Maia. That’s… purely, purely stunning. I’m so sorry these lowlifes have focused on you.
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July 13th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Although this particular lowlife’s massage parlor probably exists only in his own head. Ew.
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July 13th, 2007 at 7:37 am
God, how not surprising is it that this jackass would own a massage parlor? How not surprising is it that this he would get his jollies out of forcing a woman to dance nude?
Way to conform to the stereotype, sleazeball. Seriously.
—Myca
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July 13th, 2007 at 7:52 am
What an utter, unmitigated, asshole. Sorry you’ve got to deal with him.
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July 13th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Yeah, these guys think they are really funny. Sound to me like they are having one big circle jerk with each other.
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July 13th, 2007 at 8:25 am
someone needs to post this for me.
“Dancing nude on stage in a massage parlor? Christ, no wonder I have to deal with grabby, threatening jerks at my workplace. As a REAL Massage Therapist I’d like to thank people like you for the pervert last week who tried to corner me and grab my breasts. He thinks you’re on his side. Good job.
If getting laid was a cure all for anything, it’s obvious each and every single one of you are virgins. Most likely of the too hairy, 40 year old still living with mommy variety, of which I have the pleasure of rejecting every day. Ew.
Get laid immediately. Start with each other.”
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July 13th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Yeah, there’s really nothing wrong with these folks that some (fully consensual) hot queer sex couldn’t fix.
Or, well, really, it wouldn’t fix anything. But at least there’d be a bit more hot queer sex in the world, and as Martha Stewart says, that’s a good thing.
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July 13th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Yeah, there’s really nothing wrong with these folks that some (fully consensual) hot queer sex couldn’t fix.
I dunno, consent doesn’t seem to be important to them.
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July 13th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Evidently, getting some dick solves problems. So I advocate they take their own advice. I’m quite certain they fully believe their dicks hold this magical ability to alter someone’s beliefs fully and completely and if it’s true, I can’t think of anyone better for them to try this out on than each other.
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July 13th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Just disgusting, but not exactly surprising. Guys like this always seem surprised when being assholes gets them labelled as such.
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July 14th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Did anyone notice that on the “Clint Heine and Friends” blog one of this “friends” is a woman who calls herself Charlie’s Angel?
Why hasn’t she commented on this whole mess? hmm….
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July 14th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
I dunno about the “hot” part, Amp.
pheeno, the deal is that the sort of ‘massage parlors’ Asshat refers to don’t, in fact, have nude dancing; they’re brothels, not strip bars. Asshat has no doubt created a whole imaginary Sexemporium in his head, based on never having actually been to either.
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July 18th, 2007 at 12:24 am
I just got a creepy, stalky email and the headers traced it possibly to my city government’s servers. I’ve forwarded the information to the police chief and the city manager asking their assistance at tracing the origin of the email. But this is just mind blowing in terms of not really knowing how to handle it.
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July 18th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Oh God Radfem I’m sorry that’s so creepy. The powerlessness of going to the police, as if they’re going to do anything, makes it worse.
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July 18th, 2007 at 7:00 am
I think the police department uses that IP as well. I get visits from it daily on my site.
It has to be someone who I ran into recently b/c he or she knew how I changed my hair.
The email account used my real name and very similar to my email address.
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July 18th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Oh sweet god, Radfem, that’s awful.
If you have the money, you might want to consider a net-savvy private investigator. I agree with Maia that it’s unlikely that the police are going to (or maybe going to be able to) do anything, but it’s still good to create a paper trail so that if you do locate this guy, nobody can claim you weren’t taking it seriously.
And of course, if there’s anything any of us can do, just ask.
—Myca
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July 18th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Thanks.
The police weren’t bad last time, in fact the sergeant(from internal affairs) assigned to the case was nice when I was harassed last year. But the harassment itself just increased during that time period.
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July 18th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Radfem, maybe it’s time to go federal? (If the police department doesn’t respond appropriately, I mean.) I seem to remember hearing that the FBI has a unit devoted to cyberstalking, but of course I could be completely wrong.
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July 18th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
I certainly am not getting anywhere with my city. They sicced the IT tech on me and he’s saying he can’t trace it to any employee, can’t get a subpoena and suggest I call yahoo about the “alleged impersonations”.
Hold on. I never said I wanted a subpoena or them to hunt down city employees or even that it was a city employee. All I asked them was why the city’s IP address was on the header of my harassing email.
Thanks for the suggestion, Original Lee. There’s been fed involvement in an earlier investigation done last year. Don’t know what happened with that.
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July 19th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
People have offered to refer friends of theirs who are private investigators. People even offered to start a fund to pay them.
I’m getting some tips. I definitely know who people dislike, lol. But some of them are possibles on the city’s side. And it might not be an employee anyway so that has to be considered as well.
I’ve been blogging on it a bit too.
Sorry, Maia, I hijacked your thread! But thanks for having the courage to bring this issue to the table and discuss it. Not everyone can or does that though I think that’s starting to change a bit. I thought that “Take Back the Blog” event was a good step.
It’s hard sometimes.
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