karabreanne19

still either way you should never threaten anyones life even if you do happen to not have the means or the guts to go through with it. Even if a person happens to be talking out their ass it doesn't make it any less scary or real for the person who is on the receiving end.

I went to leaky this year and honestly it was the safest I've ever felt at a con besides Vidcon and I think that you are entirely right that it does start from the top down and both cons really do work to make not only an enjoyable but more importantly safe environment for everyone.

Also as a side note to the entire celebrity culture issues obviously the tabloids contribute a lot to that as part of the people stalking them are paparazzi. In more recent times we have seen people like Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield making those brilliant signs (link if you are familiar with what they did: http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/andrew-garfield-and-emma-stone-send-another-message-to-the-p#4aaimn9) it seems like more and more celebrities and other people in general are just over the abuse.

As you mentioned in one of your other answers that the Internet and I would argue the media can be a great tool but also a determent to promoting aspects of culture that shouldn't be promoted. Also as you mentioned in several of your responses the way to get this to change is to get people talking about it and then changing their behavior. As the person who posted this question stated some celebrities don't seemed phased at least in their public life with issues of paparazzi and the like. So all of this is to say other than talking about it how can we get people to make a change on a macro level? Even though that totally seems like quite a task considering how ingrained tabloid culture and issues of cyberstalking seemed to be ingrained in our culture.

I'm interested in knowing about that myself if you don't mind explaining how the political systems work?

Other than sharing the post on tumblr you made on this is there any way we can help?