Been reading the thread since, well, recent events, and I'm sorry in advance if I seem like I vouch for forces of evil - the dude's behaviour is obviously horrible - but the most egregious receipt here confuses me. I must say I don't really get the "consent accident" angle. I've read the thread, but what it reads to me like is a hysterical person claiming to have PTSD and literally have been raped by a dog hair. Given the kind of company dude keeps, this checks out - I've met crazier. But the OP kinda makes it look like "consent accident" post was before the dog hair post, and is referring to some prior context of accusations. Was that archived somewhere?
I don’t think it’s a bad question and I don’t think you’re asking in bad faith, so here’s the thing about the “consent accident”:
As others have said, to date, nobody has found the original accusations or found the accuser. What
was found was Elliot addressing (publicly, on Twitter) some sort of accusation that had been made against him of sexual assault, which he chalked up as being a “consent accident” due to the person having a severe phobia of dogs and finding dog hair on their clothes, leading to them revoking consent for the sexual encounter (despite knowing full well that Elliott owned a dog) after the fact.
And to be fair, considering the type of people Elliot socializes with, it’s
definitely plausible that somebody did, in fact, have consensual sex with him and then later regretted it for whatever reason and declared it was now “sexual assault”. So yes, it is true that we have no hard evidence that Elliot raped anyone, and it’s all speculation based on his own actions and explanation.
That said:
- Elliot himself claims to have been sexually assaulted by Richard DeVaul a.k.a. Dr. Headcrash, a former fellow Google coworker who is into the same hypnosis and BDSM fetish scene as Elliot is. Elliot even referred to this guy as “my rapist”, except then mentioned that he wouldn’t be pressing charges supposed assault happened during hypnosis. So apparently when Elliot doesn’t like what happened in a sexual setting, it’s rape but when somebody else does, it’s a “consent accident”.
- There is also a
2019 post on Hacker News where another former Google coworker says of him, “Liz had a fanatical hatred of ‘Rape Jokes’. Rape was not a joke to Liz. Rape was a fantasy that Liz was all too happy to describe in great detail.” He also mentioned that after a trans friend tried to basically date rape him, he went to Elliot for advice and Elliot painted
him as the bad guy for not wanting to have sex with this trans friend.
So the assumption that Elliot is downplaying the context of his “consent accident” is isn’t coming out of thin air, he has a documented strange relationship with the concept of consent.