Reply #23: Funny Story

[ThomCat]

Back as an undergrad, before the Internet, we discussion forums on the university computer system. (A VAX cluster) It was only for people on campus.

My username, for a while, was the Faery Godmother. I was a well known volunteer in a lot of organizations, I was very Out, and I had a reputation for helping people with all kinds of stuff.

One of the women on campus posted a message to the Faery Godmother saying that this guy was sexually harassing women on campus. He liked to walk beind any woman in a mini-skirt when they walked up stairs and look up their skirts. He "flirted" to the point where women were afraid of him.

Well... Three of us (myself, a drag queen friend of mine, and another friend of mine) all dressed up in drag, including little micro-mini skirts and showed up at his dorm room. We knocked, he answered, and we let ourselves in. We teased and flirted unmercifully. He climbed the furniture and hid in the corner to stay away from us while we laughed and teased and flirted some more. Within 5 minutes he was swearing, SWEARING at the top of his lungs that he knew that what he did had been wrong and he'd never do it again. Ever.

He kept that promise for at least the next 2 years he was on campus too. I knew many other people who knew him, and I saw him frequently on campus, and the Faery Godmother never heard another complaint about him ever again.

As an aside: His roommate was a fundamentalist christian. That roommate was convinced that only someone with true evil in his soul could possibly do something bad enough to summon the "perverted, evil, harpies of hell": into their dorm room. He stayed someplace else that night and moved out the next day.

:)