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Poor penguins.

So...you visited The Treasuries and saw the family jewels?

I watched Avatar twice in theaters - once for the story and once for the plants and animals. I am a PhD biologist, and I was really impressed with how well the plants/animals/ecology worked in your movie. It's so rare for films, let alone sci-fi films, to get the right feeling. (It's so bad that I sometimes make a game of pointing out the ways the scenery is out of place for a movie.)

I'd hug you if you were closer.

I'm active in the bdsm community, and this is a problem we frequently deal with (or, more honestly, actively avoid). For obvious reasons, the whole "justice system" is not an option for people in bdsm trying to deal with rape or other sexual violence.

• How can an intentional community enforce standards of behavior (i.e. respecting consent) when so much "evidence" is hearsay or intimate?

• If someone is found to be a serial violator, is it really responsible to simply ostracize them? Should efforts be made to publicize the danger they present?

Any advice or thoughts you have would be welcome. I've been struggling with this for years, after seeing abusers continue their destructive behavior year after year with little to no checks.