Copy and pasting Horizon's blog about an attempted date-rape at a 'con. His blog here. I'm copying it out because, while it's important enough that I want more people to see it, I don't like just saying "hey read this other thing," and I don't have anything more meaningful to contribute than "Rape is bad" which does not strike me as an unusual opinion.

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No words from me. Just follow the link.

Edit: My stupid computer grabbed the wrong link on the first pass. Fixed now, sorry about that.

This happened. The fact that this happened is not okay. The person who made the blog post requested it be spread about. As such, spread it about. Sexual harassment is a disgusting deed, and hopefully, if everybody's looking out for each other with the common knowledge that they need to, it'll be much less likely to happen.
Respect to the guy for speaking up about it.

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TW: sexual assault

I need to say something that I have been struggling with since August — something that, even after starting this post, has taken about 48 hours to write out. Something not easy, not pleasant, and this point, not particularly timely. But something very necessary to discuss.

This year at Bronycon, at least three women had their drinks spiked with date-rape drugs.

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Hey guys, serious talk here for a minute.

You guys need to read this blog from Horizon about an attempted date-rape that occurred at BronyCon. In the comments, it was revealed that there has also been an attempt at Pacific PonyCon (the individual responsible for the incident at PPC was also at Babscon). It terrifies me that I've been to all of these conventions.

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