Thank you for posting about this, Sonious. I don't think I would have heard about it otherwise.
I want to apologize to anyone that was hurt by the article I wrote about Feral Attraction last year, or felt that I/this website is an unwelcome place for someone with your experiences. Here I'm addressing Koji, Mystery Paws, Harke, Glow Mew, Arisoth, and Frisky; anyone else hurt by this man; and anyone who has ever found themselves in similar situations. Viro is the one I primarily communicated with for the article, and I had absolutely no idea that this is why Metriko was less available. I'm glad the podcast is ending.
It just breaks my heart that Viro would not only speak with such a forked tongue, but wind that tongue into the ear of the audience of his relationship advice podcast, which, let's face it, has no small number of vulnerable, naive people. He spoke about financial abuse, he spoke about past consent not implying future consent, he spoke against doing everything he went and did to apparently many others. It wasn't groundbreaking new advice by any stretch of the imagination, but he knew what his actions were. He told everyone that if you do what he was doing, you're an abuser. It's horrifying.
I also want to say to Metriko, if you end up reading this, I'm saddened to hear that you knew to some degree that this behavior was going on, but chose to keep silent about it. It was probably not an easy decision, but doing so only helps the abuser, and I hope you will choose differently in the future. You could have tried to help someone, and you let that someone down.
Thank you for posting about this, Sonious. I don't think I would have heard about it otherwise.
I want to apologize to anyone that was hurt by the article I wrote about Feral Attraction last year, or felt that I/this website is an unwelcome place for someone with your experiences. Here I'm addressing Koji, Mystery Paws, Harke, Glow Mew, Arisoth, and Frisky; anyone else hurt by this man; and anyone who has ever found themselves in similar situations. Viro is the one I primarily communicated with for the article, and I had absolutely no idea that this is why Metriko was less available. I'm glad the podcast is ending.
It just breaks my heart that Viro would not only speak with such a forked tongue, but wind that tongue into the ear of the audience of his relationship advice podcast, which, let's face it, has no small number of vulnerable, naive people. He spoke about financial abuse, he spoke about past consent not implying future consent, he spoke against doing everything he went and did to apparently many others. It wasn't groundbreaking new advice by any stretch of the imagination, but he knew what his actions were. He told everyone that if you do what he was doing, you're an abuser. It's horrifying.
I also want to say to Metriko, if you end up reading this, I'm saddened to hear that you knew to some degree that this behavior was going on, but chose to keep silent about it. It was probably not an easy decision, but doing so only helps the abuser, and I hope you will choose differently in the future. You could have tried to help someone, and you let that someone down.