The thing that has angered me about the way this is being discussed is that so many people are treating this as "men sexually exploiting women" and refusing to even acknowledge the fact that it wasn't a project started by men, nor was it one dominated by men.

This doesn't really matter. As someone else on LJ said, which put into words something that had been percolating inchoate in my own mind, is that the men who were involved could have been using the women as access. Which, when you read theferrett's original post, sounds perfectly plausible.

Also, as someone else pointed out, this whole thing could have been "performative bisexuality" on the part of the women involved. Or, some of the women could have been truly bisexual, which means that the whole project could easily boil down to being sexual and not some "liberating touch" thing.

And while I have spoken out about this on my own journal, it's not just about what did happen, but what could happen. As someone who participated and was still confused, I could see this type of act unconsciously pressuring others into participating, especially if the group just went up to people and asked (as theferrett said they did).