I want to try to be nice about this. Because this is a beautiful meeting house and there are many fine, trustworthy people who attend. Unfortunately, there are a couple of creepy people here also. My ex-partner attended this meeting for over five years. She donated time, money, energy, joined committees, etc. She was enthusiastic about it for a year or two. Then something weird happened. Two individuals who attend this meeting started harassing her. First, an older gentleman became "interested" in her. (We are LGBT) She'd informed him she wasn't interested. According to her she did this in a kind way. But after this, he started to stalk her. He would call and when she didn't admire him, or failed to say what he wanted to hear, or if she was distracted, he'd become insistent and sometimes angry. She generally stopped talking to him. But one day he called and told her he'd written her a "story" about her. He read the "story" which was his own notes on a conversation she had with someone else, which he had not taken part in. He had nothing to do with this and clearly he'd been lurking around her taking notes on what was said (which was not even interesting). She was upset. She told him it was a violation of her boundaries and that she didn't want him following her around, or "taking notes" on her. He started to scream like lunatic over the phone, calling her names, saying she had mental problems (because she didn't want him writing down her conversations and stalking her) It was ridiculous, but when she told me about this she was really upset. His behavior became nasty and passive aggressive at the meeting, every time she went, he'd make little jabs, etc. When she tried to speak to someone in counsel she was then treated with more hostility. Obviously gossip just went around the place like crazy. After this, it got weirder. An older woman who is friends with the man started snooping around in her life too. This woman had chaired a committee my ex-attended. She would come up to her (or us, once) and pretend to be "interested" in a creepy manner. She was asking questions without respect for boundaries or privacy-- it was like she wanted to know everything about her. My friend tends to be naive, so at first she just talked to the woman. She realized though this woman was also a problem. First, the woman repeatedly publicly rude to my friend. The whole thing was bizarre-- this older man, and now this older woman had singled her out. She felt then that some were spreading rumors about her to get her to leave the meeting (probably those two). I didn't go to the meeting much. But she was hurt and upset for way over a year and talked about it constantly. She is a generally good person. I know she sincerely wanted to contribute and did not intend on getting into some sort of match with these people. And the weirdest thing is that these people did not just leave her alone after she quit the meeting. Their behavior to be a little creepy, especially the man. She runs into that man in public in these frequent uncanny "coincidences." She also runs into the snaky woman on a too-frequent basis. I was once with her when this took place. As far as the meeting goes, some people must have known about the rumors but not one "Quaker" tried to resolve the problem. Whenever she tried to talk about it, they took the man's side. And she is still "running into" these two weird individuals (the woman is a "writer" too, it turns out) around town. It is a shame. There are mostly great people at this meeting. A lot of the people I met seemed wonderful. I don't want to do them a disservice. But the fact is, my friend was injured by her treatment by these individuals. Someone had to tell it.