Secret identity blown after plea on Facebook -€“ Metro

Secret identity blown after plea on Facebook -€“ Metro

sniperct:

notyourexrotic:

The story on Facebook was very touching. A father published a photo of his missing children and asked for help finding them. And thousands helped sharing the post and finally one person recognized the children and let him know where to find them.

The missing information was that the woman was living under protection and with a new identity after leaving the man. Now he found out where she was. She was forced to move again – to a women’s shelter.

“The worst case scenario is that you contribute to someone being beaten, raped or killed. You have to think twice before sharing this type of searches for missing people on Facebook”, says Lotta Sonemalm, at The Swedish Association of Women’s Shelters and Young Women’s Empowerment Centres , (SKR).

Women who are given protected identities all live under threat.

“It can be violence in close relationships, criminal gangs that you wish to leave and women who have been subjected to honour violence”, Lotta Otterdal, at Frida Women’s Shelter told radio show P4 Extra.

Swedish police also warns against sharing posts about missing people on social media.

“If a person living under a protected identity has their whereabouts revealed it result in catastrophic consequences for the person in question,” says criminal investigator Anders Ahlqvist to magazine Dagens Juridik.

I know that “help find this missing person!” posts are popular on Tumblr (especially accompanied by guilt-tripping) but this gives important food for thought.

Not something one usually thinks about.

Secret identity blown after plea on Facebook -€“ Metro

Secret identity blown after plea on Facebook -€“ Metro

sniperct:

notyourexrotic:

The story on Facebook was very touching. A father published a photo of his missing children and asked for help finding them. And thousands helped sharing the post and finally one person recognized the children and let him know where to find them.

The missing information was that the woman was living under protection and with a new identity after leaving the man. Now he found out where she was. She was forced to move again – to a women’s shelter.

“The worst case scenario is that you contribute to someone being beaten, raped or killed. You have to think twice before sharing this type of searches for missing people on Facebook”, says Lotta Sonemalm, at The Swedish Association of Women’s Shelters and Young Women’s Empowerment Centres , (SKR).

Women who are given protected identities all live under threat.

“It can be violence in close relationships, criminal gangs that you wish to leave and women who have been subjected to honour violence”, Lotta Otterdal, at Frida Women’s Shelter told radio show P4 Extra.

Swedish police also warns against sharing posts about missing people on social media.

“If a person living under a protected identity has their whereabouts revealed it result in catastrophic consequences for the person in question,” says criminal investigator Anders Ahlqvist to magazine Dagens Juridik.

I know that “help find this missing person!” posts are popular on Tumblr (especially accompanied by guilt-tripping) but this gives important food for thought.

Not something one usually thinks about.

Durr…

This may explain a fair bit about me, but when the complaints about me being too experienced/good to enter the contest in 2003-2004 (and continued after that really) I thought about it and came to the conclusion that no… no it was not a valid complaint because I started learning pre-internet when it took understanding the card catalogue in the library and getting super familiar with the dewey decimal system. And then everything was self taught and in reach of most people (and at the time I was stuck with the Waitakere Library which had very little in the way of good costume books!

But I forget I had a freaking huge disadvantage with my deformed hands and you know… continued pain and weakness which made actually physically making anything that much harder. I can’ recall if it did occur tome at the time… I know I was shirty when someone queried why it would take me so long to hand sew (as in needle and thread in hand) a dress even though she knew I had RA. I still can’t understand how anyone could think it would be anything other that difficult…

Anyway, it just is an example of perception vs reality.

Speaking of, I am now typing with my left hand as my right has seized up. So time to actually sleep.

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Durr…

This may explain a fair bit about me, but when the complaints about me being too experienced/good to enter the contest in 2003-2004 (and continued after that really) I thought about it and came to the conclusion that no… no it was not a valid complaint because I started learning pre-internet when it took understanding the card catalogue in the library and getting super familiar with the dewey decimal system. And then everything was self taught and in reach of most people (and at the time I was stuck with the Waitakere Library which had very little in the way of good costume books!

But I forget I had a freaking huge disadvantage with my deformed hands and you know… continued pain and weakness which made actually physically making anything that much harder. I can’ recall if it did occur tome at the time… I know I was shirty when someone queried why it would take me so long to hand sew (as in needle and thread in hand) a dress even though she knew I had RA. I still can’t understand how anyone could think it would be anything other that difficult…

Anyway, it just is an example of perception vs reality.

Speaking of, I am now typing with my left hand as my right has seized up. So time to actually sleep.

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oftheforest:

appliedumplings:

neimhaille:

I reached back a little further than 5 years 😉 1997-2005- but in reverse… oldest last… and you may be lucky and I may share photos of my really earliest costumes… Grizabella/Griddlebone, “wishing” dress interpretation and Poison Ivy. And maybe All Good Warrior Princesses Go to Heaven (which was actually based on the costume I was going to use for my sportsfighting character.. Neimhaille).

Michaela, you were just born pro at costuming.

I’m preeeetty sure that Satine costume was the first thing I remember ever hearing about cosplay! Wellygeddon 2002? My first Armageddon, age 14! I went to see the voice of Gohan, somehow managed to get my parents to take my nephew and I to Wellington for a family holiday just so I could go and meet him. My nephew got him to sign a card saying ‘kendra u suck, luv gohan’.

I bought a LOT of Evangelion and Gundam Wing shit that year, wow.

Michaela plz these are too nice to be included in Throwback Thursday. We need the nasty stuff. The unflipped seams, the hot glue, the loose threads. Come ooon.

Auckland 2004 (when it was in April still I think) 🙂 I used my winnings to pay for/reemburse myself for my cat’s extraordinary vet bills!

I did post some earlier ones… And I am saving photos of the very first until just before I got to bed 😉

Basically because bad photo is very very bad.

But I was luck to also have a serious amount of research to support my first efforts. There was a very big gap between my mum sewing clothes for me as a kid and me wrestling with a sewing machine myself, but we did also have practical home ec. at intermediate so I had worked with denim and made felt toys and so had a feel for how stuff would go together. Mum tried to teach me to knit. Now that I fail at spectacularly. Tension!!!!

Never underestimate the art and crafts you do as a kid. I was forever drawing or sculpting or building in Lego. And I made one of a kind dolls so made clothes for them too 🙂

oftheforest:

appliedumplings:

neimhaille:

I reached back a little further than 5 years 😉 1997-2005- but in reverse… oldest last… and you may be lucky and I may share photos of my really earliest costumes… Grizabella/Griddlebone, “wishing” dress interpretation and Poison Ivy. And maybe All Good Warrior Princesses Go to Heaven (which was actually based on the costume I was going to use for my sportsfighting character.. Neimhaille).

Michaela, you were just born pro at costuming.

I’m preeeetty sure that Satine costume was the first thing I remember ever hearing about cosplay! Wellygeddon 2002? My first Armageddon, age 14! I went to see the voice of Gohan, somehow managed to get my parents to take my nephew and I to Wellington for a family holiday just so I could go and meet him. My nephew got him to sign a card saying ‘kendra u suck, luv gohan’.

I bought a LOT of Evangelion and Gundam Wing shit that year, wow.

Michaela plz these are too nice to be included in Throwback Thursday. We need the nasty stuff. The unflipped seams, the hot glue, the loose threads. Come ooon.

Auckland 2004 (when it was in April still I think) 🙂 I used my winnings to pay for/reemburse myself for my cat’s extraordinary vet bills!

I did post some earlier ones… And I am saving photos of the very first until just before I got to bed 😉

Basically because bad photo is very very bad.

But I was luck to also have a serious amount of research to support my first efforts. There was a very big gap between my mum sewing clothes for me as a kid and me wrestling with a sewing machine myself, but we did also have practical home ec. at intermediate so I had worked with denim and made felt toys and so had a feel for how stuff would go together. Mum tried to teach me to knit. Now that I fail at spectacularly. Tension!!!!

Never underestimate the art and crafts you do as a kid. I was forever drawing or sculpting or building in Lego. And I made one of a kind dolls so made clothes for them too 🙂

appliedumplings:

neimhaille:

I reached back a little further than 5 years 😉 1997-2005- but in reverse… oldest last… and you may be lucky and I may share photos of my really earliest costumes… Grizabella/Griddlebone, “wishing” dress interpretation and Poison Ivy. And maybe All Good Warrior Princesses Go to Heaven (which was actually based on the costume I was going to use for my sportsfighting character.. Neimhaille).

Michaela, you were just born pro at costuming.

No, just have a few decades of obsession! But the hardcore studying (obsessing) did start freakishly early! I did a costume history essay for 3rd Form drama!!! (umm, hang on… 8th year?)

A man can wear a bow tie and a fez and he’s in costume. A woman can spend hundreds of pounds or weeks of her time on an exact replica of an outfit a minor character wore onscreen for five minutes, whilst reciting the Prime Directive in Klingon, and she’s an attention-seeking slut.

– The New Statesman on fake geek girls (x)

Reblogging this as I ran smack-bang into this mentality on my comics blog earlier today.

It makes me want to give up on humanity as a whole sometimes, it really does.

(via brentkeane)

🙁 But thank you for standing up on this, as an over achiever myself I get the try hard and attention seeker thing too. That said, I have also had some super conversations especially in regard to Mass Effect. I got to geek hard core with people at both Armageddons this month about the feelz and key mashing and how I had no idea I am actually a brawler- all this time I have been stand back and shoot but no, f-f-f-f-f-f-f-fffffff-pow! Omniblade uppercut!!!!!! Soooo satisfying.

Anyway. I mainly get the negativity online not in person. Or at least I have rarely had issues with being bailed up in person about my geek knowledge. I used to get it with my science background.. good grief there were people not believing I was able to get my degree the way I did and have a nice broad base and could talk about space time, string theory, certain periods of art and biochemistry.

It’s not that I’m super smart just super curious and enthusiastic. I literally divided my uni time between classes, labs and the library where I would work my way around the costume history, shakespeare and where I was supposed to be for class 😉 So I would learn instead of go to the movies, or socialise. So yeah. Nerd. the absolute epitome of the shy girl nerd.

And then the same while at performing art school, and when working and still now.

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