Baldy I won’t be doing that. I know you can relate to the situation on her end cuz it’s exactly how you messily handle things and receive backlash. Strawb has been criticized for 2 reasons. 1 her track record and reputation she has established over that past 3 months. Secondly, Strawb failed at handling this both based on her own principles and based on the common social principles we all have. Based on her own principles she should have exposed Ember long ago so she could have prevented Ember entering these ‘woman spaces’ and prevented potential victims. This is her narrative for outing it now but by sitting on the info she’s responsible for anything that happened after. Based on our common principles she should have taken the evidence to Ember himself and got him to admit this or found common grounds and understanding so he didn’t enter any ‘womans spaces’. It could have been handled a lot more cleanly in private with at least getting Ember’s side before exposing, than the hit job she did in an attempt to clout farm. There is a reason this is common practice in journalism to at least give the other side a chance to respond. As far as victimizing in women’s spaces, someone has claimed Ember made sexual jokes (as probing comments), but it was a Christian streamer so I don’t know how prudish their opinion is on sex. I’ll withhold my condemnation until I see transcripts/evidence. I don’t care about feelings, I care about what happened. Lastly, no I won’t be apologizing for having a nuanced opinion on this even from people I have high respect for. I judge people based on actions and agenda. What were they doing and why were they doing it? Until I see actions from Ember that are damning or see an agenda of intentional exploitation, frankly Margret I don’t care. Ember until this reveal was not considered a bad actor in the space and has had very valid takes. I’m not about to throw the baby out with the bath water because you don’t like the fact that a male would use a female model and voice to get views in a streaming space that trends against watching someone with a male model. This is the result of the common vtuber narrative that has been set up that ‘male vtubers are sex pests and weirdos’. Is it really so surprising that a guy would stream as a woman and then be deathly afraid of their gender being exposed that they’d smile and nod along in a female group chat? No, it’s not. By labeling males interested in vtubing as such you’ve set the table for this scenario. No apology.