02/01/2019
Without reservation we unite with the statement issued by Popular Women's Movement-Movimiento Femenino Popular against the s*xist!
Scott Gregory, aka “Rainer,” is a licensed massage therapist who was expelled from Serve the People Austin (STP-Austin) and Revolutionary Student Front (RSF) for using his position as a mentor to pressure a young woman activist into s*x. Gregory consistently seeks to use social status to gain s*xual partners with no regard for their emotional or mental states or wellbeing.
The problems began when Gregory entered the RSF mental health program as a facilitator, against the advice of senior leaders. Within the program, he used drugs and alcohol with younger women members despite his leadership role. After gaining a position of mentoring a new facilitator, he used this position of authority to pressure her into a s*xual relationship, using his knowledge of her approval-seeking patterns to his s*xual advantage. She regretted the relationship and faced serious depression as a result.
When his transgression was exposed, he was expelled from all activist circles, including RSF and STP-Austin. He was ordered to undergo rectification to transform his thinking and correct his treatment of women. An STP-Austin member was tasked with overseeing his rectification.
The STP-Austin member soon found it increasingly difficult to meet with Gregory. Gregory, by his own admission, was avoiding the rectification process and only attending out of fear of retaliation or consequences for not complying. Unanswered texts mounted until the rectification was eventually ended by STP-Austin.
After stopping all study sessions and losing contact with the comrades tasked with his rectification, he laid low for some time before co-founding a business, Present Company, based on the new age circling practice known as Authentic Relating (AR). The AR community is notorious for attracting pickup artists who end up in leadership positions. As part of this business, he conducted two AR workshops at OutYouth, an LGBT youth non-profit, last autumn. He has also led circling games at Guan Yin Tea House.
STP-A notified him that continuing to pursue activism or mentoring, which he can use to his s*xual advantage, would result in his exposure. Yet in February, he is leading a “s*x-positive” AR touching game at Soma Vida. Thus, PWM-MFP has decided, with the support of STP-Austin, to present the case to the public. Activists involved in the original investigation and rectification have provided all pertinent information to PWM-MFP, including Gregory’s own admittance of transgressing against vulnerable women under his tutelage.
Gregory uses sensitivity training and “circling” to pursue s*x from vulnerable women. He relies heavily on postmodernism and public opinion to avoid scrutiny. By framing himself as a conscious activist and mentor, he disarms his students against his advances, using whatever kind of status he can attain to push for his own self-interest. Gregory uses his knowledge of postmodernist feminism to appeal to women and present himself as a man who opposes s*xism, but this is only a ploy to disarm victims.
Gregory engages in consistent attention-seeking behavior and went to great lengths to further his image as an activist. He is deeply concerned about what others think of him and will maneuver to avoid a negative social reputation. This tendency led him to pretend to comply with the directives of STP-A, only to continue his anti-women patterns.
We seek to hold businesses (such as Soma Vida and Guan Yin Tea House) accountable for allowing Gregory in positions of power and demand that they no longer host his classes. By harboring an offender like Gregory, they place women at further risk. LGBT and women revolutionaries are prepared to struggle, in order to protect others from Gregory’s manipulative behavior. We insist that, until Gregory has been held fully accountable, he must be fully isolated. All progressive people must refuse to collaborate with him. Women in Gregory’s life should know about his tactic of using new age healing to attain s*xual partners and pressure women under his authority into s*xual relationships.
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