I personally don't need corroborating accounts to lend credibility or gravity to Genevieve's statement. Speaking about harassment, especially in tight-knit communities, can come with such a serious blowback that I'm really hard-pressed to believe it's worthwhile to anyone to just make it up, or say a social miscue, etc., is harassment. It's the kind of thing that maybe we'd like to believe happens more so we can navigate that Bad Person/Person We Like divide? But I have the feeling it actually doesn't. When people speak about harassment, I believe them.

It does help a lot to know about the committee's position, versus the board's. And it's appreciated.

Thing is, I don't derive any satisfaction, even the "this is appropriate" kind, from the ruining of someone's reputation. Reputation's ephemeral and its value doesn't always match the value of concrete things in the concrete world. What I would like is for people to act better.