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by lynx23 583 days ago
This sounds like borderline stalking. I am not a woman, but I have my experience with getting treated unfairly/getting patronized. And I never felt like I wanted to give a bad actor a second chance to talk down to me, even if they pretend to have good intentions. If you fucked someone over, you dont have the right to run after them. Leave them alone, stop confronting them over and over again with your own stupidity.
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It's stalking and it's objectifying the person for publicity decades later. Failing to locate her privately and now doxing her name in a major paper
Yeah, it's just another symptom of the same damned disease.
I think the new circle is somewhat different from the last one?

Also I don't think it is stalking, when they did not even found her. If they did and she said go away, and they pressured on - that would be stalking. As of now, it is likely she does not even know about it.

Well, given that it's in _The Guardian_, there's a pretty good chance that she is indeed now aware of it.

Minor quibble: the current Magic Circle is not "different from the last one" because it is the same organisation—though it has obviously had a significant change of policy and a considerable turnover of membership in the three and a half decades since Sophie Lloyd was accepted as a member.

"there's a pretty good chance that she is indeed now aware of it."

Indeed. Maybe that was the point?

Or well, I actually rather suspect the motive to be the planned movie about the events, which is in need of PR ..

As other have said, doxing is even worse! If they had searched for her privately, and didn't find her, bummer. But to step up the hunt and dox someone publicly is a totally different story. Disgusting what organisations are capable of, and what is being casually supported by the public!